NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party , set to rule India's capital city, is socialist in its objectives but won't be silly about how it achieves those objectives. That's how Yogendra Yadav , the party's strategy and policy guru, defended AAP against charges of pushing an adventurist left-wing policy philosophy.Speaking to ET, Yadav also said most critics have "no idea" about "how much thought and research have gone into AAP's policy positions and promises". AAP's big challenge is not its economic philosophy, but its administrative inexperience, Yadav argued. "We have to quickly learn the grammar of governance."Yadav, who is a member of AAP's political executive committee and the main intellectual force behind the party's policy positions, said critics of the fledgling party - "pink papers and free market economists" - miss the point when they call his party "left of the left". Our Constitution talks of socialist principles, he said.Some of India Inc 's major CEOs had told ET (in a report carried in the edition dated December 24) that while they commend AAP's electoral success they are apprehensive of the party's economic philosophy.Yadav said, "We are not going to follow a prefixed template." He added that his party will not be doctrinaire in its economic policies. The AAP government, he said, will attempt to reduce inequality and poverty through whatever policy mix that achieves these outcomes best.AAP's "socialism" does not include blind use of the state as an arbiter, regulator as well as a service deliverer, Yadav said, making a distinction from his party's approach to what's usually passed as state socialism in India.He agreed, though, that whatever AAP's approach on various issues, in government its challenges are huge. The burden of incredibly high expectations, the lack of administrative experience - every AAP MLA is a first-timer - and the job of persuading bureaucrats to come on board with AAP's philosophy were identified by Yadav as some of the most formidable challenges.Time was also an issue, as Yadav sees it. He pointed out the Election Commission 's code of conduct for general elections may kick in end-February. "So we may have just two months to show we are delivering," he said.Re-emphasising his and Arvind Kejriwal 's point about what they see as AAP's distinctive feature, Yadav said the party rejects Congress ' and BJP's identity politics. Muslims are not about only riots and Urdu, and Dalits are not only about historical victimhood, Yadav said, and pointed out that AAP is Delhi's "biggest Dalit party today". "But that's not how we are looking at our Dalit support...we are looking at what they need...electricity, education, clean water..." "Our strength is the conviction and sacrifice of our volunteers," Yadav said. "We are all common men in the common man's party."