The decision seeks to re-invent the role of the electorate, as AAP before staking claim to form the government went on to hold referenda in hundreds of constituencies to know the will of the people by involving them into the decision-making process.

The speculation making the rounds on the much-hyped Governor’s rule in Delhi or re-election again has subsided. The people of Delhi have given a new meaning to the traditional vote-bank politics, going by their conscience and extending an unconditional support to a party that had no political godfathers. They voted for the party which they believed would emerge as a viable option to dispense with the system of governance ridden with corruption.

Now it remains to be seen as if the newly emerged political party emerges as a party of substance in letter and in spirit, for we need a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The people of this country, touted to be the world’s biggest democracy, have had enough of it. Let’s wait and watch.

RAMESH K. DHIMAN, Chandigarh

Sensing voter’s temper

With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, political parties have started naked dance of vulgarity by resorting to mudslinging. Leaders, who were in deep slumber, are suddenly portraying themselves as well-wishers of the public without realising the pulse of voters, who are fed up with such jugglery. Parties which are afflicted with corruption, internal differences, criminality, regionalism and religion can never come up to expectations of the public. Though it seems impracticable to fulfil promises in Delhi, but if AAP works earnestly, honestly with transparency, efficiency, plugs the loop holes and deals strictly with corrupt and wrong doers, then it might succeed. AAP only requires a strong will power to accomplish its task.

Dr K.D. LAKHANPAL, Bilaspur

Lesson not learnt

Apropos editorial “Burial or action” (December 23), the summary rejection of the Adarsh Commission report on the Adarsh Society scam by the Congress-led Maharashtra Government, clearly indicates that the Congress has not learnt any lesson from the drubbing it got in the recent Assembly elections. Keeping the ensuing 2014 Lok Sabha elections in view, the Congress high command would have done well to re-establish its lost credibility by directing the state government concerned to take action on the report. However, the party’s intention to shield its senior leaders and those of its ally the NCP, is likely to add to its woes. Moreover, state government’s version that membership to the Adarsh Society was not exclusively reserved for the Kargil War heroes or their survivors, appears ridiculous.