Now with the polls for the Delhi Assembly on, it would be interesting to watch if the momentum that the Shaheen Bagh protest had spun would outlive the election or die down.
That’s a big question which must be worrying the political parties those who have tried to benefit out of the, either organised or spontaneous, groundswell of emotions against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Going by the chronology of events, there were several instances when politicians did the acts like moralising adulteration of politics to, making serious mudslinging at the cost of thousands and thousands of innocent citizens those who had little to do with the protests or politics even.
It all started well and became a pan-India wave and soon got entangled in a political quagmire.
Shah Vs Kejriwal
With just two days to go for the results, swords are hanging over both, Arvind Kejriwal and Amit Shah.
A loss will be terrible for both. BJP’s ‘Chanakya’, Shah, has already associated himself with a series of failures, in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madya Pradesh, Jharkhand and last but not the least, Maharastra.
And now if Delhi goes the Aap way then Shah has to summon his old wisdom of earlier times and re-invest less of diabolical aggression and redefine his course. Else, Bihar may slip out of the NDA grip.
Delhi is paramount for Amit Shah as with his defensive ferocity often playing out in open, yet he had to summon over four chief ministers, top leaders and a host of pep-talkers in the media . Loss of Delhi might transpire a situation when Shah can find himself cornered in the party.
And, for Kejriwal, a loss would be very terminal in nature and may be a question of Aap’s survival even. Even his residual influence in states like Punjab may suffer severe setbacks.
