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‘God and history will not forgive what you are doing to the party’ was the message given by lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal through an open letter.
After 6 days of his expulsion, he wrote an open letter to Kejriwal. He accused Kejriwal of turning the Aam Aadmi Party into a “high command-oriented” party and betraying trust if lakhs of supporters.
He rejected the charges made against him which said that he worked for the party’s defeat. He said that he would rather take a risk of a possible loss with honourable candidates than win with the wrong type of candidates.
“If I had wanted the party to lose, I would have resigned and gone public with my reasons that very time. If Yogendra Yadav wanted the party to lose, he would not have convened that meeting and stopped me from going public. Instead, he worked his heart out for this campaign, defended the party on innumerable occasions on TV. And yet you have the temerity to accuse even him, along with me, of working for defeat!” Bhushan said in the letter.
Bhushan says that AAP has become a supremo-oriented, high-command culture kind of party. He believes that Kejriwal’s worst qualities have emerged, whereas he should have been showing his good qualities.
“The removal of the Lokpal, us and others who questioned the manner of our removal, reminds one of Stalin’s purge of dissenters in the Communist Party of Russia. You should read Orwell’s Animal Farm to see the parallels between Stalin’s Russia and what is happening in our party today,” he said.
Bhushan also accused Kejriwal of making “false and inflammatory” allegations against him, his father Shanti Bhushan and Yogeendra Yadav at the National Council meeting on March 28.
He elaborated on the reasons for the widening rift with Kejriwal and said that differences began after the Lok Sabha elections.
He said that Kejriwal felt as if the party has ‘finished’ after the Lok Sabha elections and it could only be revived if they could form the government in Delhi again.
Even though there was strong opposition from the party leaders, Kejriwal started to get Congress’ support which he mentioned was one of the major reasons for the separation.
“Instead of abiding by the majority decision, you said that while that may be the majority view, as the Convenor of the party, you have the right to take the final decision, and that you would go ahead with seeking Congress’ support,” he said.
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