Grassroots workers want Aam Aadmi Party govt, but wary of Congress
24 Dec 2013 4:35 AM IST
After AAP indicated it would form the government by taking outside support from the Congress, many of AAP’s selfless volunteers who worked at the grassroots level expressed apprehension about it being a ‘marriage of convenience’.
‘We cannot trust the Congress as it called AAP the B team of BJP. I would rather want a minority government,’ said Arun Verma, 19, who had campaigned on cycle rickshaws fitted with loudspeakers and ceaselessly distributed pamphlets in east Delhi in the run up to the Dec 4 elections that threw up a fractured verdict.
But the party, which gave a drubbing to India’s grand old party, the Congress, and stopped the BJP from forming the government, is all set to rule the roost in Delhi.
AAP, which emerged as the second largest political grouping in the Delhi elections with 28 seats in the 70-member assembly, is soliciting public opinion to form the government with Congress support. It will announce its decision on Monday. The Congress has announced that its eight legislators will give outside support to AAP.
A student of Bachelor of Arts from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Arun Verma has been working in the AAP’s Hanuman Road office ever since it was opened in Aug 2013. Says Verma: ‘Even if AAP is not able to fulfill all the poll promises and is able to provide basic needs to the people I will be happy.’
He thinks the Congress will pull the plug at a crucial time when the party is pushing for implementing some of the main issues on its agenda.
‘We cannot trust the Congress as it called AAP the B team of BJP. I would rather want a minority government,’ said Arun Verma, 19, who had campaigned on cycle rickshaws fitted with loudspeakers and ceaselessly distributed pamphlets in east Delhi in the run up to the Dec 4 elections that threw up a fractured verdict.
But the party, which gave a drubbing to India’s grand old party, the Congress, and stopped the BJP from forming the government, is all set to rule the roost in Delhi.
AAP, which emerged as the second largest political grouping in the Delhi elections with 28 seats in the 70-member assembly, is soliciting public opinion to form the government with Congress support. It will announce its decision on Monday. The Congress has announced that its eight legislators will give outside support to AAP.
A student of Bachelor of Arts from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Arun Verma has been working in the AAP’s Hanuman Road office ever since it was opened in Aug 2013. Says Verma: ‘Even if AAP is not able to fulfill all the poll promises and is able to provide basic needs to the people I will be happy.’
He thinks the Congress will pull the plug at a crucial time when the party is pushing for implementing some of the main issues on its agenda.
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