Delhi
Key leaders leaving AAP, is the party on a withering mode?
Leaving of AAP by its important pillars makes it a gradually withering party say analysts:
It seems that the AAM ADMI PARTY in Delhi which claims itself to be the party of masses is slowly and steadily withering away with majority of the key leaders and pillars leaving the party in a huff and seeking retirement from politics.
The party formed out of the movement against corruption led by Anna Hazaare is today in shambles and its principal duo chief minister Arvind Kejrival and the deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia have literary captured the entire party and its government giving little chance or autonomy to speak or be part of power.
What’s more surprising is the fact that even after the party’s division in Punjab by way of expelling its MPs’ and MLAs there, in Delhi as well the Aam Admi Party’s entire cream has left the party leaving very few leaders in its fold.
If we broadly assess and analyse the party’s situation today till now the AAP has lost intellectual, crowd pulling and eloquent leaders like Shanti Bhushan, former law minister, Prashant Bhushan, Supreme Court Advocate, Dr. Yogendra Yadav, eminent psephelogist, Professor Anand Kumar, JNU, Kapil Mishra, former minister, several retired IAS bureaucrats, Mayank Gandhi, Kumar Vishwas, renowned poet and orator, Senior journalist Asutosh and Ashish khaitan, journalist and Vice Chairman of Delhi Dialogue Commission, a state ministerial post holder.
Not only this but a lawmaker and two ministers have also left the party including good number of workers. About 15 of its MLAs and former ministers were chargesheeted on various counts like fake degree cases, rape cases, extortion and physical attacks etc.
A few months even the Delhi chief minister and two of its MLAs were allegedly chargesheeted for physically assaulting the Delhi chief secretary Anshul Prakash at the mid of the night at the CM’s residence where the former was called for the meeting.
Not only this but out of the four year tenure of his government in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejrival and his ministers had been at loggerheads with the Lt governors viz Nazeeb Jung and Anil Baijal including the prime minister and the Delhi police followed by filing of the case on the state vs centres’ powers’ in the Supreme court of India finally winning the same favorably.
While the chief minister Arvind Kejrival and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia have literally captured the entire party and the government, running their wholesome writ everywhere it has in return annoyed and compelled several important leaders leave the party or are on the verge of leaving them.
The dictatorial and one sided attempt of Arvind Kejrival of not nominating its party leaders like Kumar Vishwas, sr journalist turned politician Asutosh or Ashish Khaitan but instead nominating the two rich unknown non entities as Rajya Sabha MPs from Delhi have led to the resignation of Asutosh n Khaitan thus making AAP slowly and steadily pillar less say sources.
Meanwhile, there are rumors that the Bollywood actor turned politician, MP and former minister Shatrughan Sinha is showing tremendous interest in the activities of AAM AADMI PARTY having shared its platform earlier. It is learnt that the actor turned MP is today visiting an AAP GOVERNMENT’S skill development programme in Nand nagri area in Trans Yamuna with the deputy CM, Delhi Manish Sisodia. The reason being AAP wants to impress the Poorvanchali voters in Delhi who form the sizeable chunk. And Shatru himself a poorvanchali would be of immense help to AAP in the coming Delhi elections in 2020.
Similarly AAP has eued on the second largest chunck of voters in Delhi, the voters of Uttarakhand and it is being given to understand that it”s shortly going to announce the formation of Uttarakhand academy along with 15 other language academies to impress other communities as well.