Cartoon War - Modi Vs Kejriwal

There's a nice symmetry to the way in which the Aam Aadmi Party's leadership loses people. Its most plausible metropolitan members are purged from within by Arvind Kejriwal while its most brutish stalwarts are disabled from without by angry policemen or estranged spouses. The loss of its most cultivated members is balanced out by the loss of its coarsest, and in this way, a happy equilibrium is found. During these periodic ructions partisan critics gloat, bien pensant fellow-travellers despair while the AAP explores new ways of being insurgent. The last mentioned isn't hard; the central government, maddened by the Delhi elections is rampaging about doing its rogue elephant routine. The plan - shackled as we are to political reason, we have to look for a plan - must be to show Delhi's voters that the man they made chief minister via an electoral avalanche, is just a gelded mayor, constitutionally disbarred from picking his nose without the central government's permission.