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Rise and fall of Aam Aadmi Party

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AAP emerged as a surprise to people. Just a couple of years back, they came, rose and miserably fell. Their popularity declined due to too much negative publicity by opponents and loose talks by its own party workers. Also, Kejriwal took many wrong decisions. As a culmination of all this and due to lack of internal management, those who once were the face of the party quit Aam Aadmi Party.

About 200 members of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Mumbai unit discarded the party’s trademark ‘topis’, thereby relinquishing their membership. They expressed discontentment over the direction the nascent political outfit was taking and its decision to not contest the forthcoming state elections. The volunteers, who gathered at the Marathi Patrakar Sangh on Saturday afternoon, said that they have submitted a letter of resignation to the party chief Arvind Kejriwal expressing their decision not to continue with party work. Addressing media persons, the party volunteers leveled allegations against the party’s top leadership and accused the state party chief, Mayank Gandhi, of threatening and ill-treating them when they met him to raise various issues on August 9.

The volunteers gathered even went so far as to accuse the party of having allied with communal forces and even alleged that the party’s ulterior motive for contesting in the Delhi Lok Sabha elections was to help the BJP, although they denied having any proof to support the allegations. They accused senior party members of not letting them work and having no concern for the well being of its volunteers, informed Afroz Malik, a party volunteer after submitting his resignation. Hitting out against them, a senior AAP leader explained “there are some known troublemakers with some kind of agenda. They have always been trying to foment trouble. The resigned volunteers said that they will not contest elections but will return to the work they were doing before aligning themselves with the party.

Anyway Kejriwal is free now, after he resigned as Delhi chief minister and lost elections against Modi. However, he still continued to attack Modi. Arvind wanted Modi to break his silence on gas pricing. Also, he wanted Modi to disclose what is his and his party’s relation with Mukesh Ambani and Adani? Since Kejriwal resigned as the Chief Minister of Delhi , he had been expending his efforts on campaigning and strategising for the national election. His Aam Aadmi Party or AAP has suggested that Kejriwal would contest against Mr Modi if the BJP leader contests for Parliament elections from anywhere outside Gujarat. Just over a year since its formation, AAP, which has positioned itself as an anti-corruption party, won enough seats in December’s Delhi state elections to take power. Kejriwal quit as chief minister after he championed the anti-graft bill proposal, the Jan Lokpal Bill, was stalled in the Delhi legislature.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is continuing its attack on Narendra Modi. It’s a known fact that Modi and his heavy rallies are sponsored by Adani and Ambanis, both these tycoons have played major role in making Modi a Brand. Kejriwal had earlier said that Modi should speak on Mukesh Ambani and gas pricing in his rally. The AAP leader also questioned Modi’s support to higher gas price allegedly favouring the Ambani’s. The party has been attacking the two leaders over this issue ever since an FIR was registered by AAP led Delhi government against Mukesh Ambani and Union petroleum minister Veerappa Moily. His party made gas pricing an issue ahead of 2014 General elections but that flopped in front of Modi’s huge campaign.

On Kejriwal’s orders, the Delhi government’s anti-corruption bureau had registered an FIR against Union petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily, Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani, former Union minister Murli Deora and retired director general of Hydrocarbons VK Sibal for creating an artificial shortage of natural gas in the country and raising its prices.

Democracy has the right to reject anything, if Kejriwal can’t bring the bill this time ,same bill can be brought in next session, there are lot of people in streets and slums of Delhi who voted for Kejriwal just believing he will do something to make changes in their life . Leaving all such crucial priorities aside he wouldn’t have resigned. There is no doubt that crony capitalism must end and transparency must prevail. But ‘everyone is thief approach’ must be given up otherwise our economy would suffer heavily. On the other hand, his question to Modi is valid. Modi has given a lot of favours to Ambani for his industries in Gujrat and the bond between them is rock solid. So expecting Modi to break silence on Ambani and Adani would be laughable. He won’t make any statement since it would mean violation of agreement with the Reliance. It is good that at least Kejriwal had dared to take up the issue and exposed him openly. Now people of the country have to decide what they want. Whoever comes to power, RIL will be the favourite punching bag for AAP and they will go to any extent to expose them. For RIL , unfortunately they have a product ‘gas’ which directly hurts the common man. What surprises me is people taking shelter on the grounds of matter being ‘Subjudice’! Discussing alleged unethical things by the corporate houses is never deemed as contempt of court. At last, someone dared to break the conspiracy of silence. The important issues of the day have been carefully shielded from public debate under the guise of “growth” and “governance.” While Manmohan Singh’s reticence is to blame, the principal opposition’s obstructionist stances have led to the death of issue-based politics.

The Indian public discourse needed a rude shake-up to revive these issues. The four pillars, Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and the Media have slipped into a comfort zone in the sleaze of crony capitalist growth. True transparency will start with disclosures on electoral funds, but will take at least another 10 years. The revolution has barely begun and will need persistent support. Those who have manipulated systems so far will try to do so more virulently.

Ambani must go to court; many things will come out if court takes serious note of it. Research by many groups said many fake ids were created to click yes for Modi and dislike to others. Any political party/politician would not like to see their huge financial help getting dried up. That RIL and Adani groups are in collusion with Modi is further exposed from the CAG report which reveals that they were awarded farm land at throw-away price at the cost of the peasants. It is also the trend now that the corporate houses do not put their eggs in one basket but in different baskets so that no matter whichever political party captures power, they can make it work for them. Moreover, Kejriwal believes too much in populist talk. He should focus upon some constructive moves. It would be good both for his political career as well as politics of our country.

Right now Kejriwal should look towards strengthening the party and save it from downfall and with time if he fails to do so, then Aam Aadmi will become history.

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Vaidehi Taman
Vaidehi Tamanhttps://authorvaidehi.com
Vaidehi Taman an Accredited Journalist from Maharashtra is bestowed with three Honourary Doctorate in Journalism. Vaidehi has been an active journalist for the past 21 years, and is also the founding editor of an English daily tabloid – Afternoon Voice, a Marathi web portal – Mumbai Manoos, and The Democracy digital video news portal is her brain child. Vaidehi has three books in her name, "Sikhism vs Sickism", "Life Beyond Complications" and "Vedanti". She is an EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker, OSCP offensive securities, Certified Security Analyst and Licensed Penetration Tester that caters to her freelance jobs.
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