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PHATAA POSTER NIKLAA HEERO – Paanch Saal Kejriwal The unprecedented and hugely unexpected 95.7% win rate at the Delhi 2015 assembly poll by the just 2 year old Aam Aadmi Party has suddenly catapulted the ‘Bhagoda’ muffler man, Arvind Kejriwal, India’s newest political sensation, into an incredible phenomena. By any stretch of imagination, this is the finest moment for the value based alternative politics in the independent India’s, 68 years old history. Reportedly some 54.3% voters backed this fledgling political enterprise. The scale of devastation this AAP has caused to the two main political parties has to be seen to be believed. For 15 long years, Congress ruled Delhi and yet this time round failed to get even a single seat. Country’s biggest political party, which ruled the centre for 10 years and couldn’t return to power in Delhi in the corridors of parliament, could muster only around 10% of votes. The party leadership was at complete loss of words to react to this compr...