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Rising on a wave of disaffection with the corruption and inefficiency of established political parties, the success of India’s Aam Aadmi Party adds an Indian dimension to a worldwide phenomenon of external challengers - Italy’s Beppe Grillo, Pakistan’s Imran Khan and Indonesia’s Joko Widodo and Tri Rismaharin - who are working ground against the top-down model of economic growth. But in Arvind Kejriwal’s case, his supporters belong to the “floating mass” of workers connected to their homes in the hinterland through the flow of remittances, investment, culture and ideas, and steadily politicized with the help of print literacy, electronic media, job mobility and mobile phones.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:22:53 +0000

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