Arvind Kejriwal
is the national convenor of AAP. His party won 28 seats in Delhi out of
70 in the December 2013 Delhi Assembly polls, with 28% of the vote,
finishing 2nd behind the BJP which won around 33% vote and 31 seats and 1
by its ally SAD to make it 32 for the BJP alliance. The Congress won 8
seats with 24% vote in Delhi. The AAP then formed a 49-day Government in
Delhi with Congress support, and resigned on 14 February 2014, with
Kejriwal making his ambition to become Prime Minister of the country
clear. AAP contested 443 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls,
but drew a blank everywhere in the country including Delhi except
Punjab, where it won 4 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP won a clear majority in
the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi
defeating Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi by more than 3.71 lakh votes.
In Goa while campaigning for AAP for the February 2017 Assembly polls, Arvind Kejriwal said that AAP will cancel ticket of any AAP candidate found in any wrongdoing even 24 hours before polls-AAP will leave a seat uncontested but not field tainted candidates!
This claim is extremely hollow and unsound, and by that claim Kejriwal himself will be unable to contest any election on an AAP ticket on his own issue of horse-trading. Arvind Kejriwal has made allegation after allegation on the BJP leaders, accused the PM Narendra Modi of taking a bribe of Rs 25 crores, in a matter dismissed by the Supreme Court. Kejriwal continues to slander against the PM on his degree, AAP continues to lie that the PM's suit cost Rs 10 lakh while it cost less than Rs 10,000. Kejriwal continues to claim 'honesty' and claims to be 'an anti-corruption crusader who risked his own life for it by going on a fast unto death'.
The reason for his attacks on BJP & PM is his desperation to become the PM of India and inability to digest the rout of 2014 LS in general & his own rout in Varanasi by 3.71 lakh votes to Modi. In 2013, before the Delhi Assembly polls he swore on his children that he will not take support from Congress or BJP to form Government in Delhi, which he violated. After that he resigned in Feb 2014 from Delhi Govt to try to become the PM of India, but gave the excuse that the reason was the inability to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill.
In Goa while campaigning for AAP for the February 2017 Assembly polls, Arvind Kejriwal said that AAP will cancel ticket of any AAP candidate found in any wrongdoing even 24 hours before polls-AAP will leave a seat uncontested but not field tainted candidates!
This claim is extremely hollow and unsound, and by that claim Kejriwal himself will be unable to contest any election on an AAP ticket on his own issue of horse-trading. Arvind Kejriwal has made allegation after allegation on the BJP leaders, accused the PM Narendra Modi of taking a bribe of Rs 25 crores, in a matter dismissed by the Supreme Court. Kejriwal continues to slander against the PM on his degree, AAP continues to lie that the PM's suit cost Rs 10 lakh while it cost less than Rs 10,000. Kejriwal continues to claim 'honesty' and claims to be 'an anti-corruption crusader who risked his own life for it by going on a fast unto death'.
The reason for his attacks on BJP & PM is his desperation to become the PM of India and inability to digest the rout of 2014 LS in general & his own rout in Varanasi by 3.71 lakh votes to Modi. In 2013, before the Delhi Assembly polls he swore on his children that he will not take support from Congress or BJP to form Government in Delhi, which he violated. After that he resigned in Feb 2014 from Delhi Govt to try to become the PM of India, but gave the excuse that the reason was the inability to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill.
After the AAPs rout in the May 2014 LS polls, he wanted to become the CM of Delhi AGAIN with Congress support. On 20 May 2014, AAP
wrote to the Delhi LG asking him not to dissolve the Delhi Assembly and
was open to forming Government AGAIN with Congress support (ignoring
its reason of not passing Jan Lokpal cited in February 2014). Arvind
Kejriwal asked Lt Governor
Najeeb Jung not to dissolve the Delhi Assembly anytime soon, saying it
will hold public meetings across the city to know whether the party
should form the government again. In a meeting, Kejriwal told Jung that
the party was deliberating on whether it should form the government.
Kejriwal also handed over a letter to Jung in which he said AAP
would hold series of public meetings to ascertain people's views on the
issue.
Yogendra Yadav, who later was expelled from AAP also claimed that Kejriwal said on 16 May 2014, the day of the 2014 Lok Sabha results, that he 'wants to become Delhi CM again'. At this time, in the Delhi Assembly the BJP had 31 MLAs plus 1 of SAD to make it 32, Congress had 8 and AAP 27 (not including expelled MLA Binny). But at that time in July 2014, Arvind Kejriwal tried to form the Government by poaching Congress MLAs. He himself had tweeted that Congress MLAs were being sold for crores and BJP would pay Rs 20 crore for each Congress MLA.But later it emerged that in July 2014 Arvind Kejriwal himself tried to form the Government in Delhi with the help of Congress MLAs, by trying to break them away from the Congress when the party refused to support AAP.
Kejriwal had sworn on oath of his children not to take Congress support to form government. Not only did it violate it in December 2013 to February 2014 by running a 49-day government with Congress support, here in July 2014 when the Congress party was not ready, he tried to break it and get MLAs to support him and become the CM. He himself had tweeted that the cost of one MLAs support was 20 crores.
An audio tape purportedly showing the Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal discussing his plans to break the Congress and buy its MLAs during the Delhi elections created fresh problems for the party in March 2015. Former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg released the tape, which shows Kejriwal in conversation with him and planning the horse-trading in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections. This conversation was of July 2014, one and a half months after the 2014 LS polls result, though the tape was out only in March 2015. It is obvious that ex-AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were aware of this attempt of Kejriwal in July 2014, but kept quiet until they were expelled from the party in March 2015. After they were expelled, they exposed Kejriwal's attempted horse-trading.
The audio tape of this is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlTN0E5Ksn8
Here is the explosive conversation between Kejriwal and Garg:
Kejriwal: We are ready, but they are not agreeing. Manish & all are in touch with them.
Garg: The 8 MLAs are ready, but Ajay Maken and Surjewala are creating hurdles, saying that they will be finished in Haryana.
Kejriwal: So then what to do? This is not their final decision, what can we do? I have tried many times.
Garg: We can appeal in the mohalla sabhas, to the people of Delhi. We can say that if they offer support, we will form the government.
Kejriwal: No don't say that. Say the opposite.
Garg: No, I'm just asking you.
Kejriwal: No,
we should not say anything. If they are ready, we are ready. But if we
say this now, it will seem that we are getting desperate.
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Kejriwal: You try and break these 6 MLAs away. They should form their own party and support us from outside.
Garg: Yes, okay.
Kejriwal: Congress won't support us, it has been one and a half months.
Garg: Okay, I will plan something.
Kejriwal: These
6 people were going towards the BJP. They can't go to the BJP because 3
among them are Muslims. So these 6 might as well support us.
Garg: Okay, I will try and do something.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aap-kejriwal-explosive-conversation-congress-audio-tape-sting/1/423302.html
There was no question of the authenticity of the tape, the AAP accepted it and the AAP shamelessly justified it as 'political realignment'! But some people with conscience in the AAP resigned from the party, for e.g. Anjali Damania.
This
was also corroborated by the Congress MLAs after the tape became public
in March 2015. Former Congress MLA Mateen Ahmed Khan says that he was
approached by
Garg sometime in July 2014. Another former Congress MLA Hari
Shankar Gupta does not confirm if he was asked but says that AAP was
desperately looking for Congress support. Asif Mohammad Khan, former
Congress MLA says that late in 2014 he had many meetings with Manish
Sisodia and Sanjay Singh who asked him to get their word to the Congress
high command. However, Khan says that Rahul and Sonia were dead set
against any tie up with AAP.
Sadly, this tape has been almost completely forgotten. After this expose, the AAP suspended Rajesh Garg, the man who simply released the tape- punishment for exposing Kejriwal.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aap-suspends-former-mla-rajesh-garg/article6999273.ece
This tape dismantles Kejriwal's claim of being an anti-corruption crusader once and for all, and shows his greed for power. Even with AAP in power in Delhi, he is desperate to become PM and cannot digest his 2014 rout, and has leveled lies against the PM without apologizing (E.g. in Nov 2014 he tweeted a lie that Varanasi had 3 lakh + bogus voters but did not apologize when the administration clarified that this news was false, and how could BJP have anyway done anything in Varanasi when Samajwadi Party was ruling in UP and UPA at the Centre). If AAP was without power in any state, it would collapse within 2 years, unlike the Jana Sangh/ BJP which sat in Opposition for 50 years.
This tape dismantles Kejriwal's claim of being an anti-corruption crusader once and for all, and shows his greed for power. Even with AAP in power in Delhi, he is desperate to become PM and cannot digest his 2014 rout, and has leveled lies against the PM without apologizing (E.g. in Nov 2014 he tweeted a lie that Varanasi had 3 lakh + bogus voters but did not apologize when the administration clarified that this news was false, and how could BJP have anyway done anything in Varanasi when Samajwadi Party was ruling in UP and UPA at the Centre). If AAP was without power in any state, it would collapse within 2 years, unlike the Jana Sangh/ BJP which sat in Opposition for 50 years.
