Industry body CII's director general Chandrajit Banerjee said the political scenario is always very important for the economic policies of a country and therefore general elections are definitely a crucial issue.
"As far as AAP is concerned, it is too early to make a judgement, although emergence of this party has definitely been a curtain raiser sort of thing for everybody," he said, while adding that the CII is also looking at engaging with AAP like it has done with all other political parties.
He admitted that the emergence of AAP has brought to the fore one clear theme — about governance and accountability of the government.
"This could be a big game changer and anybody who comes to power would have to focus a lot on governance and ensure that there is accountability on their part," Banerjee said.
IT major Tech Mahindra's vice-chairman Vineet Nayyar said political elections are always an issue and they create their own anticipations.
"The world cannot be indifferent when one-seventh of the world is going to get a new government. Obviously there is an interest (among foreign leaders here) in Indian elections, because India is very important on the global economic platform," he said.
Global rights group Amnesty International's secretary general Salil Shetty said the emergence of AAP has shown that people "do not accept nonsense anymore" and similar trends are being seen in Brazil, Russia and many other places.
"Accountability to the population has to be there. AAP emergence has at least created a scare among the political leadership that you have to be accountable," he said.
Bharti Group chairman Sunil Mittal said that AAP is an expression of people's thinking.
"I am a keen political observer. For me, AAP is nothing but an expression of people's thinking....
"It will be one of the most difficult elections to predict, but it will be one of the most interesting elections," he said while participating in a session on India here on Wednesday.
During the session, finance minister P Chidambaram had said that AAP should quit if they don't know how to govern.
"That (holding two-day long dharna on Delhi streets) is not governance. That is abdicating governance. If you don't know how to govern, quit," he had said.
On why the Congress party was continuing to support the minority AAP government in Delhi, Chidambaram had said, "Opinion in the party was divided. Local unit took that decision, right or wrong. The point is whoever is in government, must govern".
"You can't mask your inability to govern by street agitations. The line that divides agitation and anarchy is a very thin line and they may have crossed that line in the last few days," he said.
