AAP's internal turmoil.

Just as the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) sprung back to power after the much awaited Delhi election with an unprecedented voting tally, the party has once again sank into internal turmoil. Rather than focusing on the huge dreams they have restored in the eyes of Delhiites and fulfilling the promises like free public Wi-Fi to all, free water supply, electricity bills slashed to 50%, new universities, better infrastructure and an advanced city, the party men are busy accusing each others and defending their stand.

Just before the elections were to take place, Shanti Bhushan in a public interview accused Kejriwal of transforming the party to a one-man show and also endorsed BJP’s Chief Minister Candidate Kiran Bedi. Though everybody smelled the rat that time too, but in the hustle of elections, no attention was given to the matter, but now again a much more developed campaign against party supremo Arvind Kejriwal has commenced with much more furore.

All the pandemonium started when Prashant Bhushan’s letter to party’s National Executive went public. The letter complained that Kejriwal has himself moulded the party in order to make it a one man party. The letter questioned the necessity of having the Chief Minister as the party chief too. Besides this Mr. Bhushan accused that the party has distorted away from its real path. The party just makes the donations given to it transparent but doesn’t talk about the party’s expenditures on various products. Moreover Mr. Bhushan also expressed his displeasure over party’s way of choosing candidates. He cited the example of Naresh Balyan, AAP’s Uttam Nagar constituency candidate who was caught with huge amount of liquor stored in his house during elections. Despite of this the party leadership took no steps in order to deal with the matter. He also gave example of another party worker who was caught in a video saying that it was right to lure people to vote for the party through unfair means like distributing liquor. Notwithstanding knowing everything Mr. Kejriwal made the person a “Constituency Prabhari”. One of the biggest allegations that came in public’s eye is that the party’s leadership was well aware of the fact that the Rs. 2 crore donations they took were completely bogus. Party’s prominent leader Mr. Yogendra Yadav accused the party leadership of having all the ins and outs of the illegitimate donations made to the party, but still the party went forward to accept the donations.

Just as these allegations were made public, Kejriwal’s loyalists came up in support of Kejriwal by saying that the father son duo of Shanti-Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav have hatched this conspiracy in order to malign the image of Arvind Kejriwal. Dilip Pandey, AAP leader, accused the three of making false and unjust accusations and said that the trio wants to hold the top places in the party and  that’s why had made these allegations.

Now a party meeting has been called up in order to decide the fate of Shanti-Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav but if we look at the gravity of the charges leveled by them on AAP’s leaders, the matter is pretty grave. If we go according to them, the party has seriously flouted all the principles which it boasts about and has surely duped the citizens of Delhi.

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