This refers to the editorial, “AAP's larger problem” (January 8). Having earlier called for a plebiscite in Jammu & Kashmir to allow the people of the State to decide whether they wanted to remain in India, Mr Prashant Bhushan has now said that a referendum should be carried out there over the deployment of troops. Although AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has distanced the party from Mr Bhushan's statement and termed it as the latter's ‘personal opinion', it still raises question on the AAP leadership's capability to handle issues of national importance.
The AAP had promised a new kind of politics, but Mr Yogendra Yadav's statement that the party will fight for additional quota for the lower castes, women and the economically-backward is the same traditional politics of quotas which has created divisions and disharmony within society. After garnering the support of the aam aadmi, and rising to power, the party is now for creating divisions in the ranks of the aam aadmi.