Can AAP fight the mighty politician-bureaucrat nexus?

By TECHNO-ECONOMIST PATRIOTEditor's note: This is a reader comment we got on the article, AAP to form govt: Now comes their real test in Delhi published earlier today. As is Firstpost policy, we have lightly edited for grammar and spelling, but the comment has been left as is.16 out of the 18 points on which AAP sought to ascertain the Congress' and BJP's stand have been made out to be outside State legislative sphere (new legislation) and the remaining should be taken to Cental (parliamentary) action. That essentially boils down to getting the Delhi administration to work which in one word is not going to be possible. This is because all the departmentalized administrative machinery like electricity, water, police, .... are to all but 100% corrupted, lethargic and inefficient, and they were made so, historically, under the successive BJP/Congress administrations. And the politicians and independents and parties (other than AAP yet) are the very backbone of this corruption, lethargy, inaction and irresponsibility, misusing a labyrinth of rules and regulations and contractors/sub-contractors who are mostly the politicians' stooges/ protégés acting to do their behest.

Nowhere in the country, in fact, is the story different, since the wicked politician-administration nexus is universal all over India and pervades from top to bottom. Its vile grip has become rapidly stronger through nearly seven decades of Independence. Existing AAP voters and volunteers are not, as this story indicates, going to involve themselves in cleaning the Augean stables of the Delhi administration. The legislators—meaning, AAP's legislators, with the "supporting" Congress' ones, not to mention BJP's, watching the fun in glee—will find themselves utterly unequal to the Herculean job. Will then AAP come up with some alibi like absence of Lokayukta or Lokpal to help put sense into Delhi administration by destroying the wicked nexus?