I once had a toaster and that worked like a charm. It was one of the best appliance we had ever owned. But then suddenly one day it stopped working to our expectations. It was not dead but just not upto our expectations. We tried our best to get it back to our suutability, but that just doesn't worked. And one day, while it was still working it was relegated to a distant corner, where it remained for rest of the time gathering dust. And then while cleaning for diwali, it was declared trash and just threw it away. It's not that we never got another toaster, we did, but the benchmark was and still is that one. So not very thing you throw away is ''trash" in the real sense. It just turns into something which you have to trash. So trash here is more of a verb than noun.
I still think if one day my toaster would have repaired itself and started working like a charm, would it still find a place on my countertop. Most definitely yes. But at the back of the mind, it would always haunt me that it can fail me anytime. That, is now a truth with AAP. People will not forget that they too are susceptible to failure and infighting once again. A phase where people and their aspirations take a back seat in comparison with priority to save a party. But if they do resurrect themselves, most definitely people will accept them with open arms. Toasters or political party, people are not wedded to them. Its just a vehicle, a tool to achieve their aspirations and goals. I need a toast but thats not end of the world. We need good governance, but that is not everything a common person want.
Atal bihari vajpayee once famously said that people of india have thrown congress into history's trash bin. Not that, congress was never useful, but as of that day it was percieved as no longer useful. So they had to trash it. As again it hapened in 2014 and 2015. They were agaian trashed.
AAP and its founding member, if they dont realise it, are at such a risk now. If they are percieved, as non useful they will too be trashed. No one will look at untapped potential and its repairability. But unlike inanimate objects like toasters, AAP is made up of humans who do have the capability of repair and refine themselves. The sooner they do, the sooner its better for them. Otherwise its not ling before they too are discarded and search for a better alternative continues. Have they set the benchmark for future political parties? May be may be not.
I still think if one day my toaster would have repaired itself and started working like a charm, would it still find a place on my countertop. Most definitely yes. But at the back of the mind, it would always haunt me that it can fail me anytime. That, is now a truth with AAP. People will not forget that they too are susceptible to failure and infighting once again. A phase where people and their aspirations take a back seat in comparison with priority to save a party. But if they do resurrect themselves, most definitely people will accept them with open arms. Toasters or political party, people are not wedded to them. Its just a vehicle, a tool to achieve their aspirations and goals. I need a toast but thats not end of the world. We need good governance, but that is not everything a common person want.