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If we take a 360-degree view of where our national politics stands today, we find action in two distant places: Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which has so far been in the South, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activity in Gujarat. This week we are focusing on the latter. This is about two years after I had written a National Interest noting its progress, describing it as India’s political start-up of the decade, and a unicorn at that.
That politics abhors a vacuum is a truism. Just that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) loyalists might ask you a counter: That’s something quite all right, but what’s the debate over a vacuum in Indian politics?
The larger-than-life figure of Narendra Modi not
