Now the party has come up with a new advertisement that should make its detractors very afraid.

It's not easy to be the Aam Aadmi Party. Much like the heroine in a saas bahu soap, the party is perennially fighting and occasionally sobbing. When the party's own people are not leaving it, its ministers are being pulled up for furnishing fake graduation certificates. When the Modi government is not bothering it, Delhi's lieutenant governor is driving poor AAP up the wall.

Now the party has come up with a new advertisement that should make its detractors very afraid. It shows a fan of the party, very upset with the other evil forces in the universe who have been bothering 'Arvind'. Since there is no one except a TV-addict husband at home to rant to, she grumbles to herself and does this:

Who wants to be in the place of the lauki? No one, right?

This new commercial, which is being aired in national television, shows a aam aaurat in a cotton saree. As the ad begins, she is shown wistfully returning a cauliflower to a vegetable vendor after buying it. When you have to return a precious cauliflower to the veggie vendor, life can't be great, right? Right.

But like all good stories, there's light at the end of the tunnel. As she returns home, mourning over the cauliflower and then running into a husband glued to the TV, she obviously feels that her life is terrible. And then she realises that the electricity bill has been delivered to the house. As she unfolds it with trepidation and you expect her face to morph into a weeping Nirupa Roy's, but her face actually lights up with glee. When was the last time someone had looked so glad to have received an electricity bill? Never.

That's because the wizard of delightful electricity bills have not been the chief minister in the states you have lived in. Arvind Kejriwal has never been your CM.

The woman in the ad squeals in glee and tells us that the electricity bill under Arvind Kejriwal's rule has been very reasonable, unlike previous years when paying the bill left the family bankrupt.

Flushed with new savings therefore, the lady in question promptly buys a lauki (gourd) to make up for the lost cauliflower. But what does she see when she returns home? The husband is still glued to the TV and some evil people are saying mean things about the man who put a lauki on the family's plate.

Disgruntled, she goes into the kitchen, brutally skinning the lauki and making a subzi with it. It's surprising that the subzi even got cooked, given how she was literally whipping the kadhai with the spatula while raging at Kejriwal's critics.

The ad concludes with the lady exhorting the forces to be with Kejriwal and telling the viewers to join the AAP in ending the culture of bribery. Najeeb Jung and BJP supporters, on their part, should pray they never run into the woman from the advertisement on the streets.