Thread on mental health of anyone in the AAP ecosystem right now

Being an AAP supporter is probably one of the more difficult things to do right now (not trivializing struggles of other persecuted groups). Our top 3 leaders are incarcerated, some for several years now. (1/n) Watching them and their families struggle through this time is painful. If we were spending nights in a poorly ventilated, concrete jungle jail complex in 45 degree C nights, with the heat literally sucking life out of them, I don't know who among us would survive that. (2/n)

Arvind Kejriwal's arrest was a self-goal by the BJP

More people are convinced of Kejriwal's innocence than were originally. Even those people who had originally suspected AAP may have been in the wrong have now realized just how blatantly the ED is trying to frame him. (1/n) By arresting a serving CM and raising alarm bells for the state of our democracy, BJP forced independent people to dive deeper into the case more than they originally were. BJP gave people an incentive to care about details of the case. (2/n)

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After doing a year of required courses at Harvard, this semester I am taking a mix of courses that interest me most. In my readings, so many interesting ideas and stories come up that are relevant to @AamAadmiParty's politics in particular and Indian politics in general. I am going to use this thread to document some of that, so that AAP volunteers like myself (and others) can also benefit from it. Finding time to read when working on the ground is very hard. Hopefully, this thread can distill interesting ideas in consumable form!

Thread on #IndiaTodayAxisPoll data:

MyAxis had 500 surveyors, 7.5 L voters, with each interview lasting a minimum of 10 mins per their own explainer. So each surveyor interviewed 1500 voters, for 250 hours over 40 days, excl time to find respondents! 1/n

indiatoday.in/elections/lok-… Assuming it took 5 mins to find each respondent, it means an additional 125 hours. Add to this travel time btwn constituencies/states from phase to phase and the number of man-hours needed can go up a lot, but efficient management can reduce that so let's ignore it. 2/n

During Karan Thapar's Wire Dialogues interview, Guha had called the comparison of today's times with the Emergency "phony", because otherwise "we wouldn't be having this conversation in Delhi".

The liberal elite doesn't get it: they're not the threat to the fascists! Chandrashekhar Azad of the Bhim Army was a threat, and he's been locked up for months now.