Should AAP participate in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls ?

I feel that AAP should desist from spending their energies on the next Lok Sabha elections till they have come up with an acceptable national policy on many important issues. It is one thing to fight a local election on issues that pertain to everyday life of the citizens and quite a different thing to govern the largest democracy in the world nursing ambitions to emerge as a superpower. If they want to be a national party, then the voters would indeed seek to know their stand on many issues like the following:

Economic stance:  Laissez-faire, benevolent capitalism, socialism of the Nehruvian type,

                             swadeshi – BJP type………?

             Foreign policy: Relations with the US, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Srilanka……..?

             
             Policy on states: Power sharing, resources sharing etc.

            
             Kashmir agenda: Section 370……..

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             Policy makers: Who would be the brain behind important national policies? Kejriwal, Prashant

                         Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav or any committee of eminent persons? If a committee,

                         who will select the members thereof? How it would be ensured that intra-party

                         democracy prevails throughout the organisation?

Perhaps AAP should defer their parliamentary participation till such time they make public a 

workable national plan based on inputs received from the public, subject experts and scholars.  As this 

will necessarily take a lot of time, they should strengthen the grassroot support by putting up 

candidates for the various local bodies throughout the country. The good local work by them in various 

parts of the nation will alone be more than enough to sweep them on to power at the centre.  On the 

other hand if they contest the polls this year, an elected AAP MP, without a proper national agenda, 

would become a laughing stock and this rare opportunity would be fully exploited by Congress and BJP 

to quell the fire of revolt kindled by the AAP movement.

-----Venugopal Unni