Background Check: Key members of Aam Aadmi Party
The Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which recently formed the Government in Delhi in collaboration with the Congress party made an impressive debut fighting the elections on the plank of eradicating corruption in politics and public life. During the pre-poll run up, the AAP promised the voters that it would not align with either the BJP or the Congress if it fell short of a majority. However, it has now tied up with the selfsame Congress party.
It is thus in the interest of transparent public discourse that IndiaFacts has put out the following information about the key members of the AAP. Click the graphic below to view the full size.
It is therefore clear that almost every member of the AAP has had associations with corrupt political parties in the past, and have now aligned with the Congress party. One wonders about the sincerity of their claim and promise of eradicating corruption.
Also check background of some of the other candidates: http://www.whoisaap.com/profile-aap-lok-sabha-candidates/#.Uz5gpfk8pO0
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Appreciate the compilation made but you should have included the credentials of Somnath Bharti, Kamal Mitra Chenoy and other naxal/separatist sympathizers as well.
Also, Gopal Rai was apparently involved in a kidnapping case, see https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/422241502794768384
Thanks for the background check. It is a very very mild report compared to what these AAP-members really are. There is much more available on the open forum – such as twitter / Facebook / blogs.
We support your great work and please keep it up.
All the Indians must stand warned of the anti-national conglomerate called AAP. Every right-thinking citizen must assert himself or herself to contain and eradicate this pollutant- a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Composition of the NE (Natl Exec), nominated and not thru secret ballot, showed how Kejriwal had managed to pacify Yadav, whose ‘resentment’ was troubling him through the previous week when we were drafting the constitution. Yadav pushed his friends from the virtually dysfunctional SJP into the NE so that he could leverage their support during debates on policy.
Many others in the NE were insignificant politically; if an Ajit Jha would be Yadav’s ‘yes man’, supported by Prof Anand Kumar, entrants like Christina Samy of Women’s Front, Tamil Nadu, and Habung Pyang, past information commissioner in Arunachal Pradesh, have so far not been noticed contributing either to the party’s policy or mass mobilisation campaign.
Out of the JLP lot, Kejriwal is ideologically non-committal. ‘Poet’ Vishwas is good at rhetoric, dud at substance. Sisodia is smart, but that’s all about him. Singh would probably fare better in a street fight rather than a talk show on television. The most frequently seen AAP face on TV, Shazia Ilmi, is naïve. No activist worth his salt in Haryana knows what Naveen Jaihind’s claim to fame is. Gopal Rai used to cool his heels below the stage during the August 2011 movement, after his fanciful Teesra Swadheenta Andolan found no takers.
Current members of the AISA, of which Rai was once a part, say that the bullet shot he had sustained, which left him partially paralysed, had nothing to do with a political struggle; it was a result of some personal feud. He must be indebted to the party for his inclusion in the elite club. Mayank Gandhi tilts towards freedom of the market, but whenever approached with a request to speak his mind, he says he does not want to antagonise the rest of the leadership.
That leaves us with formidable human rights lawyer Bhushan, whose leftism was evident in his interview with a newspaper where he said the AAP could someday ally with the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Dark Cloud Over Horizon ?
Of all the countries in the world , America contributes most to the Global Warming
As a result , over the past few weeks , a white cloud ( Polar Vortex ) , has enveloped entire America , plunging temperatures below zero
In India , a dark cloud has been gathering over the past few years
And it is caused by no ordinary ” Warming ” !
It is caused by people’s anger ” Boiling Over ” !
Boiling over the past 15 years , at the rampant ,
> Corruption amongst law-makers / bureaucrats / low-lever government
officers / black-moneyed businessmen / greedy industrialists etc
> Criminalization amongst politicians – turned – mafia
Now with the arrival of AAP government , this dark cloud has slowly started clearing in Delhi
But a dense dark ominous cloud still envelopes rest of India
Will AAP succeed in clearing it in April / May 2014 elections ?
If opinion polls published on TV channels last evening are to be believed , it will
And believe me ,
Over the next few weeks , these opinion polls will get , ever more ,
> Sharper
> Shriller
> Deafening
The writing is on the wall !
But the short-sighted politicians cannot read !
And the far – sighted TV channel experts are refusing to read !
Every Saturday ( starting tomorrow ) , Arvind Kejriwal and his Cabinet colleagues , will sit on a footpath outside Delhi government Secretariat and face the public
They will make themselves ” Accessible ” to people
They will ” Listen ” to people
What next ?
Holding a cabinet meeting in Chandni Chowk ?
Or , a Delhi Vidhan Sabha session at Rajghat ?
AAP says ,
” To hell with procedures / precedents / barricades
Hail , the power of People
Come out on the streets
Clear the Dark Cloud ! ”
* hemen parekh ( 10 Jan 2014 / Mumbai )