James Harold Wilson, for whom running against time was a habit, especially during his four terms as the British Labour Party Member of Parliament and two terms as prime minister of the UK, once said: "A week is a long time in politics."
As the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government completes one month in Delhi on January 28, it is good to recall Wilson's statement. From the enthusiasm and cascading popular support on which it rode to power then, to the pathetic self-destruction of that trusting base in just a month is a sad commentary of what Wilson said and meant. A month ago, AAP was regarded as an alternative to the United Progressive Alliance or National Democratic Alliance misrule. Now, I look at it as a dangerous public nuisance, deserving to be thrown out at the earliest. There is no other parallel of something destroying itself at such breakneck speed. What better luck could come Narendra Modi's way?
N Narasimhan Bangalore
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