Yogendra Yadav: Once Kejriwal’s closest comrade-in-arms stares at an uncertain future

Yogendra Yadav: Once Kejriwal’s closest comrade-in-arms stares at an uncertain future

New Delhi: When renowned psephologist and political scientist Professor Yogendra Yadav decided to join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), both his admirers and friends were shocked. Nobody thought or expected that soft spoken, very affable scholar Yogendra Yadav would actually join active politics. Some of his friends advised him not to be so foolish. They warned him that vicious politics is not for a simple man like him. They even suggested that he should continue as a star panelist on TV news channels analysing political trends.

To their worries and apprehensions, Yogendra Yadav replied that he would love to be a failure in politics, rather than a big success in TV studios. How prophetic! The goings on in the AAP, which he co-founded under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal in the winter of 2012 prove that the AAP ‘politics’ has failed Yadav in just two years.

Yogendra Yadav, who is considered one of the best and saner political analysts of India has been a keen watcher of politics and certainly was aware of its pitfalls. Yadav, a distinguished professor at the famous Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi is a self declared socialist. The right-wing accuses him of backing the Congress and the Communists. Yadav dismisses such allegations with a broad smile on his face.

Yogendra Yadav, who is considered one of the best and saner political analysts of India has been a keen watcher of politics and certainly was aware of pitfalls.

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