Despite a scorching evening of a hot summer day in the capital on Monday, May 25, the 100-day anniversary of Aam Aadmi Party’s days in power, had enough attraction to bring hundreds of people in the central park amphitheatre of Connaught Place. Dozens of AAP supporters and volunteers donning T-shirts with painted logos of AAP, the evening was a carnival of sorts on the circular perimeter of the park, causing traffic and commuters to slow down. At one of the gates of the park, a swelling crowd of AAP supporters and media persons weren’t allowed inside by the police at first, resulting in tussle between the police and AAP supporters. In just few minutes, the friction metamorphosed into anti-Delhi Police slogans, resembling the Arvind Kejriwal led government’s relationship with the Delhi Police.

High-pitched and pumped up voices of AAP government’s ministers were enlisting their achievements to the public, deriving sporadic spells of clapping from the crowd near one of the LCDs in the park. A group of young boys and girls burst into laughter after a minister announced that government is mulling over the starting of a web portal where the parents whose children have been kidnapped, can track them.

But that looked unimportant for Surushee Agarwal, a Mathematics teacher, who had come down from Rohini to attend the AAP event. “I am a hard core supporter of AAP,” she boasts.

Posed with questions of AAP’s delivery of its promises before elections, Agarwal says no party can deliver cent per cent of what it promises. “Some promises have to be made to attract the electorate. Let’s understand this. But the kind of work and intention with which the chief minister is passing hurdles put in front of him by his opponents, is what makes me proud,” Agarwal says.

She has an anecdote to offer for Kejriwal’s controversies with different segments of power and people. “Raziya Gundon Mai Phass Gayi" (Raziya is caught among goons), she says, adding “water availability and electricity bill cuts announced by the AAP government as some of the benefits, she has felt personally.”

Mohamad Hazarat, an auto-rickshaw driver from Patparganj, is all praise for Kejriwal, just for one thing – accountability. According to him, during the Sheila Dixit’s government corruption and nepotism had bred so much in the system that a common man had no say.

“This government asks me what to do for you and then we decide at our community level what are we lacking,” he says, citing the case of unavailability of sewer in his area before the AAP government.

“This is what a common man needs,” he says, amid the blaring speakers of AAP leaders' tales of success.