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A month of AAP rule: Some plaudits, some brickbats

New Delhi: Unconventional politician Arvind Kejriwal's AAP government has earned kudos and brickbats - both aplenty - as it completes a month of action-packed and somewhat controversial governance.Even as he prepares to celebrate four weeks



The Secretariat, the seat of the government, is now open to all and sundry. Citizens are welcome to complain against government departments. But a 'Janata Darbar' Kejriwal organised collapsed after 20,000 people virtually mobbed the chief minister and his inexperienced ministers.

"I have never seen any government function at such speed," said a government official requesting anonymity. "When Sheila Dikshit took power in 2008 for a third term, the Secretariat was deserted for days."