Punjab Assembly Elections 2022

Decoding AAP’s ideological conundrum

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Dalit leader Rajendra Pal Gautam’s resignation from the Delhi Cabinet after the BJP kicked up a political storm over his renunciation of Hindu deities at an event to embrace Buddhism has revealed that AAP is walking an ideological tightrope. The party that once put very little premium on ideology is now trying to balance its Hindutva and Ambedkar politics

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