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Delhi Polls: Do-or-die Battle for AAP

Delhi Polls: Do-or-die Battle for AAP By  Deepak Parvatiyar November 19, 2014 Can the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spring a surprise again in Delhi? Miracles don’t happen always but none can be completely written off in politics either. Yet, the political greenhorn’s fall has been as quick as its rise in the political firmament of the country! Delhi Assembly Elections: Survival at Stake Today it has been a battle for survival for the AAP. The party chief  Arvind Kejriwal  realises it well. Ever since its unexpected victory in the Delhi assembly elections in December last year, the AAP’s fortunes have dipped drastically. That the Delhi voters did not appreciate his decision to quit as the chief minister within 49 days was evident in the April-May General Elections where the AAP drew a blank in the city-state. An ‘unforgiving’ Delhi did instead vote for the BJP which obtained over 50 per cent votes in the national capital and emerged victorious in an incredible 60 Assembly