AAP’s national voyage: Can it replicate Delhi’s success in metros like Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore?

Water shortages in Gurgaon; a restless slum and migrant population in Mumbai; disenchantment with the existing parties in Bangalore…a quick dekko at the issues citizens in these metros are grappling with will inevitably have you concluding: Hey, aren’t these the same problems that plague Delhi — and facilitated the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) in the recent assembly elections and it eventually forming the government?

That question can lead to another tempting conclusion: if AAP could take Delhi by storm, surely it can replicate its success in other metros — and indeed all over a country in which corruption and a lack of transparency in governance are a universal bugbear.

It isn’t, of course, that straightforward. But if an emboldened AAP has embarked on an all-India recruitment drive with the aim of garnering 1 crore members by January 26, it’s because the party’s leader Arvind Kejriwal and his core team have sensed an opportunity to go in for the big kill — the general elections that are around the corner.

True, time is short, the national waters are untested and AAP has its task cut out to find credible names to take on the big parties. But the iron is hot, and AAP is ready to strike. Here’s how. First stop Gurgaon:

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