Rumblings in AAP grow louder after first lS list
Just a couple of days after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha elections, voices of dissent have started growing louder. Resentment has started brewing on the party’s selection criteria for the first 20 candidates and the dissenters have alleged that the party has not followed the transparent selection procedure that it promised to.
Unhappy over the selection of the candidate from the Moradabad seat, around 60 to 70 party workers from the district alleged that the party has been unfair in selection of Khalid Parvez as the candidate.
Questioning the AAP’s selection of Parvez who is an educationist to contest against former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, the agitated volunteers and party workers landed at the party office on Monday. The dissenters alleged that the party in announcing its choice of the candidate did not follow any transparency and questioned the procedure involved in the selection of the candidate. The group led by the party member Vishal Sharma alleged that the members who have been associated with the party for a long time were never consulted while announcing Parvez’s name.
“We have been working day and night for the benefit of the party, but suddenly we got to know that lok Sabha list was announced. We have never seen him working or following the list of requirements for the party. There are senior members in the group who were never consulted by the party, which makes tall claims to send common people to Parliament,” said Devender from Najeebabad district.
The aggrieved group raised its complaint with the senior party leader, Sanjay Singh who promised to take up their issue to the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meet and find out a resolution.
Interestingly, going against the established norm of the political parties, it was AAP which had sought applications from the common man to contest for the upcoming lok Sabha elections. Releasing the first list, Manish Sisodia had said, “Our aim is to send the common man of this country to Parliament. We want good people of this country to be there.”