New Delhi: From grabbing positive headlines a day to now chasing controversies with each passing hour, the Aam Aadmi Party's tryst with politics since coming to power in Delhi is steadily becoming a contentious one.
A day ago, Vinod Kumar Binny, the AAP MLA from Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi, was busy providing support to colleague Kumar Vishwas in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. On Wednesday, his entire approach to the party changed.
"AAP has lost direction, muddon se bhatak gaye hain," said Binny, who had incidentally also expressed his anger when he was denied a slot in Delhi Cabinet. He had threatened to expose his own party and has repeated the threat now.
But his party leader and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was unwilling to play ball.
"Pehle wo mantripad ke liye aaye they mere paas. Woh humne mana kar diya. Uske baad bole Lok Sabha ka chunav ladoonga. Mere ghar aaye. Ab party nedecide kiya hai ki sitting MLAs ko MP ka ticket nahi denge," Kejriwal said on Wednesday as the party tried to quell the rebellion.
Binny's outbursts came after danseuse Mallika Sarabhai, also a member of AAP, took on Vishwas for his supposed pro-BJP leanings.
"He compared Modi to lord Shiva. What else do you make out of this Vishwas?," she said. In fact an FIR was filed against Kumar Vishwas for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims by making objectionable comments on Muharram during a Kavi Sammelan (poets' meet).
Noted lawyer and Kejriwal's close aide Prashant Bhushan's controversial comments for a referendum on withdrawing Army from Kashmir and security forces from Maoist-infested regions of the country have also put the AAP in a spot of bother.
But what's causing immense damage to the party, which is already dreaming of being a prominent factor in Lok Sabha elections, is the manner in which its own leaders ranging from Prashant Bhushan to Vinod Kumar Binny to Mallika Sarabhai are squabbling in public.
AAP, the youngest party, has been bitten by the oldest political bug.
Comment from -Tp Radhakrishnan tpr54@hotmail.com - Binny contradicts himself. First, he emphasizes that he did not at all ask AK for a Lok Sabha seat and that when pointed out that AK himself has alluded to Binny asking for
a Lok Sabha seat, he says AK is a liar. But, when cross-examined by the interviewer, he admits
that Sanjay Singh had promised him and that he wanted Binny to fill in the form applying for a
seat. He now admits that he met AK and reminded him about Sanjay's promise to him about
the Lok Sabha seat. Another point of contradiction by Binny. At the time of sending the Ministers'
list to the Lt Governor, now Binny says that his name was in the original list of CM plus five
Ministers; but that later his name did not find a place. We all saw in an earlier TV footage
how Binny was going out of AK's house in an agitated manner and shouted that he will expose
the AAP during next day's press conference. Obviously, after Sanjay Singh and Kumar Vishvas
went to Binny's house on the same night, they might have convinced him and persuaded him
not to raise his objection and clarify to the press the next day. Sanjay Singh at that time might
have assured him that the Lok Sabha election nominations are available, apart from many other
avenues and why should Binny express his objection in not including him in the Ministry. Hence
as planned, Binny informs the Press the next day that he did not have any objection at all to not
being in the list of Ministers. Now, he does a somersault and says otherwise. He calls AK a liar
whereas it is clear and obvious that Binny is a born liar. His main grievance, now he says, is that
many issues given prominence in the Manifesto of the party have not been fulfilled. It is
ridiculous to expect ALL promises to be fulfilled within a time frame of not even three weeks
after forming the govt. Some of the important promises have already been fuifilled and the
Delhi govt is working on other important issues like Jan Lokpal Bill, Swaraj Bill etc. CAG
auditing of the power discoms are going on, etc., etc.
Now it is for AK and the AAP to initiate stringent disciplinary action against Binny like turncoats
(who have joined AAP mainly to gain power and position), irrespective of the consequences.
Further, Mallika Sarabai, Captain Gopinath and other similar new members should be fore-warned
that they could not go to the press on every issue before tackling the same within the party and
also get in writing from them that they could not by right demand nominations for any power or
position, including candidature to the Lok Sabha and other fora.
Source of info - ibnlive and Aam Aadmi.
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