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Explore the journey of Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of India’s fastest-growing political party, AAP. This video delves into Kejriwal’s rise to prominence, his party’s significant achievements, and the challenges they face today. We discuss the allegations of corruption against Kejriwal, the impact of his arrest, and the questions it raises about democracy in India. We also examine the transformation of AAP’s politics over the years, its ideological shifts, and the future of the party.

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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from its latest issue titled "Farewell Ideology".
00:06 India's tryst with ideology has been more complex than the West's.
00:10 We have caste and region, language and socialism.
00:14 All these are forces in their own right.
00:17 In different times and in different contexts within our country, one has trumped the other.
00:23 Outlook's latest issue looks at some of the regional and national political parties
00:28 and the shifts in their ideological stance as they strive to navigate political power,
00:33 coalition politics and opportunism.
00:36 It is a reminder for us and for them about what they stood for once, lest we forget.
00:43 "Trapped" by Rakhi Bose from Outlook.
00:46 It is time for Arvind Kejriwal to do some soul-searching.
00:50 The news of the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement on March 21
00:57 left many in Delhi upset, including 33-year-old Sonu Kumar, a shop owner.
01:03 A resident of Sundarnagri in North-East Delhi, Kejriwal's Karambhumi,
01:08 where he began his anti-corruption movement over three decades ago,
01:12 Kumar states that everyone in the locality knows Kejriwal.
01:17 He used to work in a small office nearby, from where he ran his campaign Parivartan, Kumar recalls.
01:23 As a teen, Kumar used to regularly visit the Ramlila Maidan in 2011-12 during the Lokpal movement.
01:30 "I used to go to hear his speeches. Everyone in our neighbourhood joined the protests.
01:35 We wore Anna caps, named after anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, and joined the agitation.
01:42 We all believed in him," he recalls.
01:45 Over the years, he watched Kejriwal continue his fight against corruption from the streets.
01:51 In 2013, Kejriwal sat on a hunger fast for two weeks against exorbitant electric and water tariffs.
01:58 It was here that the movement started taking a political shape in the form of the Aam Aadmi Party, AAP.
02:05 "It happened in this very neighbourhood," says Kumar.
02:09 "He's such a simple man, always dresses and speaks humbly, like all of us.
02:14 I can't believe they're accusing him of corruption now," Kumar says with a sigh.
02:19 The arrest of Kejriwal, a sitting Chief Minister and opposition leader,
02:24 ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 in April,
02:27 had raised an alarm and several questions about the fate of democracy in the country.
02:33 But for many like Kumar, the arrest also raises other important questions.
02:38 What happened to AAP? What happened to Kejriwal?
02:41 The fastest-growing political party in the country in the last decade,
02:45 once dubbed the 'Herald of Political Change', is now being accused of corruption,
02:50 the very demon it was created to fight.
02:53 Post-ideology politics.
02:55 It all began in 2011 when Hazare sat on a hunger strike against the then Congress government,
03:01 which was mired in multiple scandals.
03:04 The aim of the movement was to fight for clean governance and remove corruption from high places.
03:10 By the time India against corruption movement strengthened,
03:13 Kejriwal was already a known face amongst activist circles.
03:17 He had been conferred the Raman Magasese Award in 2006 for his role in the Parivartan movement,
03:24 which analysed the Right to Information legislation as part of a campaign against government corruption.
03:30 He had also founded the civil society organisation called Public Cause Research Foundation,
03:35 which worked towards increasing transparency in governance.
03:39 He had also worked as a tax investigator in the Indian Revenue Service,
03:44 a job he left to pursue activism full-time.
03:47 It was the 2011 protest, however, that propelled him to national attention.
03:52 For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.

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