Arun Jaitley flays AAP, says country faces ‘gimmickry’
18 Jan 2014 5:15 AM IST
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley while criticising Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said that the country is being presented with ‘gimmickry and the road to anarchy’ instead of alternative politics.
He said, ‘My fear is that the failure of this experiment should not be confused by other parties as a failure of the good message of higher standards of probity and accountability. There is an in-built danger in establishing a political party and then going out to search its members and its ideology. In the process, a group of disparate, self-opinionated persons have flocked to the new outfit.’
On the context of AAP’s membership drive, the BJP leader said, ‘A sense of idealism has been replaced by desire for job seeking, resulting in fissures within the party. Kejriwal’s government in Delhi is facing a barrage of criticism with its inexperience now being seen more as liability than a refreshing change.’
He said, ‘My fear is that the failure of this experiment should not be confused by other parties as a failure of the good message of higher standards of probity and accountability. There is an in-built danger in establishing a political party and then going out to search its members and its ideology. In the process, a group of disparate, self-opinionated persons have flocked to the new outfit.’
On the context of AAP’s membership drive, the BJP leader said, ‘A sense of idealism has been replaced by desire for job seeking, resulting in fissures within the party. Kejriwal’s government in Delhi is facing a barrage of criticism with its inexperience now being seen more as liability than a refreshing change.’
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