Kejri’s fund-raising drive picks up
3 Jan 2015 11:54 PM GMT
Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday launched a fund-raising campaign called “I stand for honest politics”. On the lines of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, the party chief nominated 11 people to donate money. Kejriwal started the started the campaign by himself donating Rs 10,000 to the party.
He nominated 11 people, which includes industrialist Rajiv Bajaj, actress and party leader Gul Panag, Vipin Mittal, Kejriwal’s family friend and dentist, businessman Subhash Khandelwal, his close aide Aswathi Muralidharan, NRIs Amit Agarwal (Hong Kong) and Munish Raizada (USA), Mohammad Kasim, a law student, Kejriwal’s IIT batchmate Subroto Saha, his brother and sister Manoj and Ranjana Kejriwal. “I am kickstarting this campaign by paying up Rs 10,000 and challenging 11 people to Fund for Honest politics. Like other parties, we dont take money from those who take donations from people owning power discoms. They take their donation, but then they have to dance to the industrialists’ tunes. We are taking money from people. So we will work in the interest of the common public,” said Kejriwal.
AAP’s national secretary Pankaj Gupta said through this campaign, the party wants more and more citizens to become “direct stakeholders” in our party. Challenging the BJP to make its funding public, Kejriwal said AAP is the only party, which has made its donations public and transparent. ‘If politics is funded by clean money then the woes of the people can come to an end as any government coming to power will not work under the pressure of industrialists,’ said Kejriwal.
He nominated 11 people, which includes industrialist Rajiv Bajaj, actress and party leader Gul Panag, Vipin Mittal, Kejriwal’s family friend and dentist, businessman Subhash Khandelwal, his close aide Aswathi Muralidharan, NRIs Amit Agarwal (Hong Kong) and Munish Raizada (USA), Mohammad Kasim, a law student, Kejriwal’s IIT batchmate Subroto Saha, his brother and sister Manoj and Ranjana Kejriwal. “I am kickstarting this campaign by paying up Rs 10,000 and challenging 11 people to Fund for Honest politics. Like other parties, we dont take money from those who take donations from people owning power discoms. They take their donation, but then they have to dance to the industrialists’ tunes. We are taking money from people. So we will work in the interest of the common public,” said Kejriwal.
AAP’s national secretary Pankaj Gupta said through this campaign, the party wants more and more citizens to become “direct stakeholders” in our party. Challenging the BJP to make its funding public, Kejriwal said AAP is the only party, which has made its donations public and transparent. ‘If politics is funded by clean money then the woes of the people can come to an end as any government coming to power will not work under the pressure of industrialists,’ said Kejriwal.
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