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I will differ.
Indians are looking for strong leaderships right across be it a Union Territory, State or the Centre and that is where Modi, Kejriwal, Nitish Kumar, Mamta Benerjee, Jaylalita, Biju Patnayak, and others fit in, and in a sense this is where the maturing of democracy is taking place in India. In a country where the number of registered political parties are close to 2000, we are able to figure out who to vote for and in what numbers, and all these leaders are very strong in their own right.
India is far from being divided between Kejriwal and Modi or for that matter between the AAP and the BJP at the moment.
Kejriwal is for now limited to Delhi, which is not a State but a Union Territory, but where after a massive win in the 2015 elections, where the AAP swept to form the government with 67 of 70 seats, they now find themselves on a shaky surface, where the chances of them getting even to the half way mark will be challenge because the middle class, which formed a part of his support group, are questioning the deliverables, also their major of poll plank of corruption has lost steam since the central government so far has delivered 2 years of non-corrupt governance. The other place the AAP is looking set to make massive gains are in Punjab. The elections will be held in 2017, the AAP according to the opinion polls is all set to form the government, which is largely based on the huge nuisance caused by the drug trade that happens through Afghanistan-Pakistan-India-onwards, and with Punjab as a transit, there has been a big spike in drug consumption, you should watch "Udta Punjab" to get a sense of this menace. The only political party that has spoken against this problem is the AAP, and the rest SAD, BJP, and Congress have in someways benefitted and turned a blind eye to the a big chunk of younger generation turning into junkies.
This is by and large where the AAP for now finds itself limited to. In contrast Modi is way bigger, he has his support come from lengths and breaths of the country and the challenge to him will most likely come from Nitish Kumar (Bihar CM, if you recall Imran Khan had sent a PTI team to Bihar to study how the transformation was happening there), but again the challenge won't be directly from Nitish, but a coalition of a big chunk of political parties who will get together are likely to choose Nitish as it's leader.
