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Kejriwals Aam Aadmi Party has its work cut out,living up to 71 manifestos
In this years Delhi assembly polls,it will be raining manifestos. Like objects under a doubling charm,they will multiply before the eyes of an amazed Delhi electorate,until there are 71 one for each constituency and one more for the capital as a whole. Or at least,that is Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwals plan,announced this Sunday,after he delivered 10.5 lakh letters of complaint to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshits address. Sacks full of letters,scores of manifestos Kejriwals pet theme of decentralisation seems to have mutated into a spectacle of numbers.
Like all politicians,the AAP chief does not scrimp on poll promises electricity at half price,3,000 litres of free water per family every month. In 2011,TMC chief Mamata Banerjee promised a government influenced by Tagore. After she came to power,this was manifest in Tagore songs blaring out of speakers at busy Kolkata crossings. UP CM Akhilesh Yadav promised laptops for students in 2012. They were distributed this March,complete with a wallpaper featuring Akhilesh and Mulayam Singh Yadav. When students tried to remove the wallpaper,the laptops crashed not unlike the rest of the party manifesto. If one manifesto is hard to live up to,Kejriwal will have his work cut out living up to 71.
