ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the way in which an anti-corruption movement changed its character from its origins in anti-political, civil society activism to the transformation into an electoral force, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). It is argued that a one-sided dismissal of the anti-corruption movement and the AAP as a part of the economic and political Right fails to understand the conditions which have given rise to it, and its changing contours. Yet, despite the inauguration of new political spaces, the AAP’s positioning as a post-ideological formation riddles it with contradictions and renders it weak in confronting the structural fault lines of Indian society.
