The Aam Aadmi Party has hardly had time to savour the fruits of its success in the Delhi polls when a bitter, internecine battle seems all set to dislodge it from its lofty edifice (“ >Yadav, Bhushan shown the door ,” March 29). Is it on its way to becoming history? In what seems to be a clash of bloated and bruised egos, some of the party’s founder leaders are getting the short end of the stick. It is unfortunate that those who have been wounded are now striking back and shredding the party’s bruised image. It’s a question mark as far as the future of the AAP is concerned.
C.V. Aravind,
Bengaluru
It was Arvind Kejriwal who said, “Leave your jobs and jump into this movement”. If he wanted to limit his movement to the small political island of Delhi, then why did he go about raising funds from all corners? The intelligentsia of the AAP have been shown the door and only the sycophants remain. How long will it take for them to be shown the door once they express their dissent? The dream of removing the “politics” from political parties will remain only that — a dream.
Vivek Rayal,
Khadri Shyampur, Rishikesh
The AAP seems to have lost its way; first it beat them, and now has joined them. It set itself up as the party that would bring in a paradigm shift and move away from the existing, corrupt politics and crony capitalism. It talked about internal democracy. It talked about clean and transparent funding. It talked about an internal Lokpal. In short, it talked of everything other parties were not.
Sadly, after the great Delhi victory, all this seems to be falling apart. Internal democracy has morphed into high command dictatorship with a close coterie of ‘yes men’. Horse-trading, manipulation, dirty tricks are there for all to see. When the AAP was set up, I began regular contributions to the party, in the hope that it would set the standard for how politics should be conducted in India. I have now resigned myself to the fact there is no hope for India to become a shining example among developing countries — at least not in my lifetime.
Alex Chandy,
Kuwait
