AAP has to address both organisational, ideological questions: Rahul Verma

'Any political party that wants to be a national party, in the long run, needs to have a vision of India'

Rahul Verma, fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and expert on India’s domestic politics, in an interview with Aditi Phadnis, says the AAP has to tackle national issues to politically qualify as a national party. Edited excerpts:

The AAP has said it is now a national party. It meets the technical requirements. But politically, does it?

The CPR does a poll with YouGov which is an urban sample. In the poll we did in July-August 2022, the AAP had 7 per cent national traction. Before that, it used to be just 1-1.5 per cent nationally. So now, the AAP is