Can Arvind Kejriwal Rescue Indian Democracy?

Christophe Jaffrelot (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

When in December 2013 Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man Party or AAP), which had been formed thirteen months earlier, became chief minister of Delhi, he achieved a rare feat. Only once before had the founder of a new party succeeded in forming a government after competing in state elections for the first time, when N. T. Rama Rao became chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1983.

Domains: Political science

Christophe Jaffrelot. Can Arvind Kejriwal Rescue Indian Democracy?. 2014. ⟨hal-03392816⟩