ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the connection between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the contemporary civil protest continuity for the rights of the marginalized people in Delhi, where most of the prominent leaders of the AAP are active. It highlights the deliberative process in the party's decision-making particularly with regard to the protection of the rights of the urban poor, focusing on its urban slum rehabilitation policy. The political victory of the AAP in the Delhi Assembly elections, at the time of an unprecedented political supremacy of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the incumbent ruling party of India, indicates a significant political situation. The 'people', usually referred to in Hindi as janata, was an important component in the names of political parties, especially after the 1970s. The position of the state government was accepted by the Court while hearing the Public Interest Litigation, Ajay Maken vs. Indian Railways.
