Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 9
Amid signs of rapprochement between AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and his former mentor Anna Hazare, the Aam Aadmi Party has got a shot in the arm as several Gandhian organisations have declared to support the party for the Lok Sabha elections even as they call it “conditional”, disapproving the Delhi Government’s “disregard” for rules during Law Minister Somanth Bharti’s episode.
While Hazare has listed a 17-point charter, including decentralisation of power, ownership rights to rest with gram sabhas, barring MNCs from plundering natural wealth (land, water and forests), saying any party agreeing to meet them would have his support, the AAP has agreed to all his demands.
The late-night meeting between the Delhi CM and Hazare on Saturday may be indicative of thawing in ties between them even after the veteran anti-graft crusader took a dig at him earlier during the day while appreciating Mamata Banerjee for being grounded even after becoming a chief minister.
AAP’s national spokesperson Anand Kumar said: “The AAP agrees to all his (Hazare’s) points. We will take up the matter with the Delhi CM.” he was speaking at the two-day Gandhian meet that concluded here today.
Gandhians, including Narayan Desai, son of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary Mahadev Desai; Kumar Prashanth, Secretary of GSN Ram Chandra Rahi; Ramjee Singh, former MP and V-C of Jain Vishwa Bharti University; condemned the Congress and the BJP and its PM candidate Narendra Modi for polarisation of votes, pro-capitalist stand and congratulated the AAP for ushering in a new brand of “secular” and democratic politics.
Desai said: “All political parties select candidates based on caste or community and that has been discarded by the AAP. The AAP has not used that divisive tool and this is a major break-through in Indian politics. Others have been seeking votes in the name of religion when the AAP showed in Delhi that elections can be won without such communal tactics and money.”
Singh said: “Gandhi ji was very critical of the parliamentary democracy based on parties. Today, political parties are in the hands of a select few bosses who distribute tickets and collect money and formulate manifesto, but AAP has changed things.”
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