<p>With BJP sliding to irrelevance in Delhi, the senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said the brand Modi isn’t dead yet. <br /><br /></p>.<p>“It is a flawed conclusion that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has come to an end. If he had not invested himself so much (in poll rallies), it would not have dented his personality at all,” he said after AAP’s landslide victory.<br /><br />The Delhi BJP’s campaign had banked on Prime Minister’s popularity despite declaring Bedi its CM candidate in the latter half of January 2015. <br /><br />“His (Modi’s) capacity to transfer his popularity to a nondescript person has come to an end,” Yadav said, explaining why the BJP couldn’t avoid an electoral drubbing despite projecting Bedi as its CM face. <br /><br />On AAP maintaining relations with Union government, he said that the newly elected govt will work closely with Centre for city’s development. <br /><br />“Modi claims that he developed Gujarat enormously. So you can work in a state even when party in power at the Centre is different. I am sure he would extend us the same courtesy as must have been extended to him by UPA,” he added.<br /><br />The AAP leader identified electricity, water, women safety and Jan Lokpal Bill as the key priorities areas for the chief minister-in-waiting Arvind Kejriwal. But he said that it is only fair to leave it on the government to set a deadline. <br /><br />“In terms of urgency, I would think it would be fair to leave it to the government,” he said. <br /><br />Yadav claimed the AAP can become a rallying point to create a visible opposition in the Lok Sabha. He said, “AAP would like to position itself as a principled force of opposition. We cannot do so by aligning with these opposition parties, we can only do so by bypassing these political coalition games.”<br /><br />The anti-corruption party had received unsolicited support from the regional parties like the Janata Dal United and Trinamool Congress ahead of the Delhi polls. <br /><br />“It is customary in politics to acknowledge the support you get during the election time, unless it comes from a source like Imam Bukhari,” he said, adding that those who lent their support fully knew that the AAP is against the ‘entire’ political system.</p>
<p>With BJP sliding to irrelevance in Delhi, the senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said the brand Modi isn’t dead yet. <br /><br /></p>.<p>“It is a flawed conclusion that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has come to an end. If he had not invested himself so much (in poll rallies), it would not have dented his personality at all,” he said after AAP’s landslide victory.<br /><br />The Delhi BJP’s campaign had banked on Prime Minister’s popularity despite declaring Bedi its CM candidate in the latter half of January 2015. <br /><br />“His (Modi’s) capacity to transfer his popularity to a nondescript person has come to an end,” Yadav said, explaining why the BJP couldn’t avoid an electoral drubbing despite projecting Bedi as its CM face. <br /><br />On AAP maintaining relations with Union government, he said that the newly elected govt will work closely with Centre for city’s development. <br /><br />“Modi claims that he developed Gujarat enormously. So you can work in a state even when party in power at the Centre is different. I am sure he would extend us the same courtesy as must have been extended to him by UPA,” he added.<br /><br />The AAP leader identified electricity, water, women safety and Jan Lokpal Bill as the key priorities areas for the chief minister-in-waiting Arvind Kejriwal. But he said that it is only fair to leave it on the government to set a deadline. <br /><br />“In terms of urgency, I would think it would be fair to leave it to the government,” he said. <br /><br />Yadav claimed the AAP can become a rallying point to create a visible opposition in the Lok Sabha. He said, “AAP would like to position itself as a principled force of opposition. We cannot do so by aligning with these opposition parties, we can only do so by bypassing these political coalition games.”<br /><br />The anti-corruption party had received unsolicited support from the regional parties like the Janata Dal United and Trinamool Congress ahead of the Delhi polls. <br /><br />“It is customary in politics to acknowledge the support you get during the election time, unless it comes from a source like Imam Bukhari,” he said, adding that those who lent their support fully knew that the AAP is against the ‘entire’ political system.</p>
