But such cause for cheer needs to be tempered with caution, as India has seen this all before. In 2011, dramatic scenes at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, which paved the way for AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal to enter politics, was a dream that soon turned into a nightmare. Rather than rush into contesting the 2019 polls they are building up ground support and looking to contest the 2020 Bihar assembly polls. This gives them enough time to understand the wishes of the people, their political rivals, and allow them to get a better sense of their strengths and shortcomings. This is key because as the ‘Kejriwal experiment’ has shown being better educated does not make one a better politician.

Source: dna April 24, 2018 01:52 UTC