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AAP worse than Congress, Akalis: Dharamvira Gandhi

Author: Rajinder Taggar, TNN
Publication: The Times of India
Date: July 31, 2016
URL:   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/AAP-worse-than-Congress-Akalis-Dharamvira-Gandhi/articleshow/53476514.cms

AAP's rebel Member of Parliament from Patiala Dharamvira Gandhi , in a nonchalant interview opened up about his future plans. Suspended from AAP for anti-party activities, he remains committed to the virtues of honesty, transparency, secularism and intra-party democracy. Dead against Arvind Kejriwal 's style of functioning, Gandhi says that the AAP convener has now become Hitler. Rajinder S. Taggar interviewed Gandhi on Sunday. Excerpts:

Q Is there any chance of rapprochement with AAP?
A. Absolutely no. AAP has forgotten its ideology for which it was created. Now it is a single man party. The core group of founders has been expelled. Kejriwal is fooling the people. First he did in Delhi. Now he is all set to befool Punjabis.

Q That means Arvind kejriwal's AAP will form the government in Punjab after 2017 Assembly elections.
A. I did not say that, but you are free to interpret it. I feel that now AAP is worse than Congress and the BJP.

Q How come such a comparison?
A. The Congress and the BJP to some extent have room for intra-party democracy. They hold elections to elect the leadership, but AAP has no such norm. It is like AAP is Kejriwal and Kejriwal is AAP. Earlier, it used to be India is Indira and Indira is India. It is height of sycophancy.

Q What role will you be playing in the forthcoming elections?
A. I will support honest candidates irrespective of their party affiliations. They may be from the newly announced Apna Punjab Party or the fourth front. Honest candidates from AAP will also get my support. I will campaign for them.

Q. You mean that AAP still has good candidates?
A. Oh, yes. They are there very much though their numbers may be small.

Q. If there are honest candidates in AAP, why did you turn a rebel? You should have fought for your principles within the party.
A. It was not possible. I am still a member of AAP although they have suspended me. As an MP, I am doing my duties. I am first in distributing MPLAD funds. Next is Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Q What is your main grouse against Kejriwal?
A. He has let us down. There is no spirit of federalism. Dissent on ideological basis is considered rebellion. The party took birth from Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, but all is forgotten. We have been cheated.

Q If AAP forms the government, who will be the chief ministerial candidate?
A. There are a number of faces. Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sucha Singh Chhotepur, Sukhpal Khaira, Bhagwant Mann and Kanwar Sandhu.

Q Will Captain's bandwagon make any difference?
A. Congress after a long exercise and repeated requests by Captain (Amarinder Singh) succumbed under pressure. What does Captain's result sheet show when he ruled? There was rampant corruption and a free hand to mafias. Scene is the same under SAD-BJP government.

Q What is your message to the youth.
A. My belief is that the youth have been pushed into drug abuse . Earlier, Bhooki (Poppy husk) was the main intoxicant but by banning it, synthetic drugs are being marketed. A minister's name is doing the rounds in drug trade. But the Chief Minister is mum.

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