During Delhi Assembly election, my colleagues, friends, relatives and I had discussed numerous times whether Aam Adami Party (AAP) will be able to get more than a couple of seats. But I think we all had a nice surprise when AAP got 28 seats that is just a little short of majority. We thought that finally people have a new option which if not now, may be in future, will provide a corruption-less (or less corrupted) government.
As the BJP also did not get a clear majority, we were again surprised by 'AAP' when they decided to form the government with support from Congress. Now is not it amazing that AAP who won these many seats because of Congress, got support from them to form the government. This is why I say 'It happens only in India'. The best part I liked is that they asked all Delhiwalas before saying 'I do' to this marriage. While some of my colleagues, friends, relatives and I felt 'AAP' should not have formed the government but then we thought, may be, 'AAP' felt that they can bring out change by forming the government.
So far so good. Delhi government started doing things which they had promised in their election manifesto like free water, lower electricity charges, a phone line for handling corruption complaint etc.. I liked the last one most though not sure how much it really helped. 'AAP' tried to table their own Lokpal Bill. But because of some constitution issues (which I really do not understand), 'AAP' could not do it. So 'AAP' decided that they should not be in Government if they cannot fulfil their promise. This is something that triggered a change of heart for some of my colleagues, friends, relatives and definitely in me. We started speculating on why 'AAP' formed the government if 'AAP' did not wanted to run it? We came up with lots of different theories and one which almost every one mentioned was that 'AAP' wanted to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha Election and so they decided to dissolve the Delhi Government.
One big question which keep coming back to me is 'Why 'AAP' decided to dissolve the Delhi Government without asking Delhiwalas about it?'. While I agree that they cannot go back Delhiwalas for all the decisions they want to take but I think this is not just any decision, this is a decision which will affect Delhiwalas one way or the other.
At this time, the struggle between heart and mind started over 'AAP'. My heart goes with 'AAP' while my mind says 'Don't even think about it'. Let me put down some of the points here:
As the BJP also did not get a clear majority, we were again surprised by 'AAP' when they decided to form the government with support from Congress. Now is not it amazing that AAP who won these many seats because of Congress, got support from them to form the government. This is why I say 'It happens only in India'. The best part I liked is that they asked all Delhiwalas before saying 'I do' to this marriage. While some of my colleagues, friends, relatives and I felt 'AAP' should not have formed the government but then we thought, may be, 'AAP' felt that they can bring out change by forming the government.
So far so good. Delhi government started doing things which they had promised in their election manifesto like free water, lower electricity charges, a phone line for handling corruption complaint etc.. I liked the last one most though not sure how much it really helped. 'AAP' tried to table their own Lokpal Bill. But because of some constitution issues (which I really do not understand), 'AAP' could not do it. So 'AAP' decided that they should not be in Government if they cannot fulfil their promise. This is something that triggered a change of heart for some of my colleagues, friends, relatives and definitely in me. We started speculating on why 'AAP' formed the government if 'AAP' did not wanted to run it? We came up with lots of different theories and one which almost every one mentioned was that 'AAP' wanted to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha Election and so they decided to dissolve the Delhi Government.
One big question which keep coming back to me is 'Why 'AAP' decided to dissolve the Delhi Government without asking Delhiwalas about it?'. While I agree that they cannot go back Delhiwalas for all the decisions they want to take but I think this is not just any decision, this is a decision which will affect Delhiwalas one way or the other.
At this time, the struggle between heart and mind started over 'AAP'. My heart goes with 'AAP' while my mind says 'Don't even think about it'. Let me put down some of the points here:
- We need corruption-less (less corrupted) India. (Heart)
- We need a party that has experience in executing a well planned strategy to provide corruption-less (less corrupted) India and unfortunately though 'AAP' wants to do this but their execution strategy does not look good. (Mind)
- We want a different Prime Minister. (Heart)
- We need a Prime Minister who speaks, has experience and has some track record that he/she can provide a good government and unfortunately while Mr. Arvind Kerjriwal can speak, he lacks in all other points. (Mind)
- In large software development, we are very particular about Scalability. Scalability has to be thought through during design and needs to be handled every step of your development cycle. Also it is very very difficult, complex and time consuming to fix this. Some time people advise to start from scratch. Now just map this to what 'AAP' is trying to do and see for yourself what will happen in future.
- It is a well know fact that you should be very very careful when you are expanding your software company (or Team) because it will effect the whole company (or Team) if you are not recruiting like-minded people who understand and appreciate the vision/mission of your company (or Team). I feel 'AAP' should not be giving Lok Sabha Tickets to anyone who they think make a right candidate.
