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What keeps Yogendra Yadav mum on Haryana riot?

29 May 2015 05:05 PM, IST

Yogendra Yadav addressing Swaraj Abhiyan members in Ahmedabad on 26 May 2015 (Photo credit - Swaraj Abhiyan)

By IndiaTomorrow.net,

New Delhi, 29 May 2015: Four days have passed since the rioting and arson in Atali village of Faridabad district in Haryana left over 200 Muslims homeless and over a dozen of them wounded, but ‘son of the soil’ Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj Abhiyan, a faction of Aam Aadmi Party, has not yet uttered a word on the violence in his home state. Crudely speaking, he could be making a ‘fine balance’ not to antagonize his potential voters from the majority community in Delhi’s neighbouring state which is set to be the venue for his electoral debut after leaving AAP.

 

The incident took place in Atali village on 25th May evening but Yadav was so busy in Gujarat event of his Swaraj Abhiyan that day that he could not say a word on the riot. But on 26th May also, his all-time active twitter and facebook pages remained silent on the riot but active on the Gujarat event. Similar were 27 and 28 May. It was only today i.e. 29th May when Yadav has 'woken up' – and that too just to retweet Swaraj Abhiyan’s post saying: “Swaraj Abhiyan has been trying to douse the fire in village Atali of Faridabad distt right from the day it erupted.” The text is followed by a link which takes one to Yadav’s facebook page where yesterday he had actually shared a Haryana lawyer Ramzan Chaudhary’s post on the Atali violence. It is clear: he or his group did not want to take any stand on this issue.

 

Was he really so busy that he could not take out a couple of minutes to clearly and directly denounce the communal violence in Haryana? Maybe. Or maybe he is behaving like a 'smart politician' who does not antagonize any.

    

Hasnu Khan at hospital in Faridabad

Atali Violence

Till 5 PM on 25th May, almost everything was normal in this village of a mixed population of Hindus and Muslims. But what happened in next two hours that day has changed the look of the village for long and divided the hearts perhaps for years and decades to come. The loot, arson and rioting targeting Muslims in the Atali village once again signifies that the menace of riot continues thriving in India irrespective of which political party rules the country or states.

 

Muslim women from Atali village taking shelter at Ballabgarh police station

Dozens of homes, vehicles and shops of Muslims were ransacked and put on fire by a mob of the Hindu majority community as they were against the reconstruction of an old mosque whose title suit was contested in the court. Hundreds of members of the minority community had to flee their homes to save their lives while dozens of them were wounded as the rioters chased and attacked them with crude sharp weapons. Even four days after the rioting, over 200 people are still sheltered in the premises of Ballabgarh city police station.

one of several houses looted, ransacked and set on fire in Atali village

Keywords : Yogendra Yadav ,   Haryana riot ,   AAP ,   Swaraj Abhiyan

AAP leaders stay away from rebel meeting in Gurgaon - THE HINDU

My comments posted on THE HINDU website article:

AAP leaders stay away from rebel meeting in Gurgaon

'Veteran Journalist Kuldip Nayyar, also sent out a message said that “insulting” people like Mr. Bhushan and Mr. Yadav was a big mistake.' What if the leaders themselves were asking for it. There is a time for everything. While Kejriwal was fully occupied with Delhi Assembly elections, was that the time for the august moralists to not just advise, but to take negative steps to sabotage AAP's election efforts. The struggle for supremacy in the party hierarchy was too open to be missed. Those who had less than full commitment to party politics, should not either have joined the AAP as political party, or would have declared from the beginning to remain as outsider pressure group monitoring AAP performance. To personalize the entire episode in a divisive manner and then expect others to keep calm without reacting is a very naive exercise. Just as the so-called group of volunteers have an immediate opinion and stake in AAP; so do a big majority of voters of India have stakes. Can't ignore!

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AAP leaders stay away from rebel meeting in Gurgaon

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Rebel AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan. File photo

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A number of AAP leaders and prominent individuals on Tuesday stayed away from the convention of party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and chose to express solidarity through written statements instead.

AAP Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi, who had earlier faced the leadership’s ire for taking stand in favour of the dissidents, in a letter stressed the need to work towards strengthening the party’s core ideals.

“The need of these challenging times is to stay true to the party’s founding ideals and foundational principles and to dispassionately debate all the ideological and organisational issues to prevent the deviation of AAP which has become a symbol of alternative politics,” he said.

In the letter, addressed to the volunteers, he also sought to remind them that it was their “right” to act as a watchdog over the party’s decisions emphasising that they were in the AAP not for any individual but for its principles.

Mr. Gandhi alleged that his effigies were burnt and a negative publicity was unleashed against him including labelling him as a “traitor”.

Meanwhile, Christina Samy, another expelled national executive member, social activists Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, who had recently quit AAP, were also conspicuous by their absence from the Gurgaon meet.

In her message, read out by a Chennai-based AAP worker, Ms. Samy said, “I am with you all in this struggle for Swaraj”.

Clarifying that he is “not from and has never” been part of the AAP, activist Nikhil Dey read out Ms. Roy’s message.

“We will have to make sure that common man has full stake in democracy. Alternative politics should be accountable, transparent and one that responds to people,” she said.

Veteran Journalist Kuldip Nayyar, also sent out a message said that “insulting” people like Mr. Bhushan and Mr. Yadav was a big mistake.

Keywords: AAP strife, AAP rebel meeting, Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan

Leaked emails from Bhushan's sister reveal AAP split before Delhi polls - By Heena Kausar - Mail Online

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Leaked emails from Bhushan's sister reveal AAP split before Delhi polls 

By Heena Kausar
 
Published: 22:35 GMT, 9 March 2015 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 9 March 2015

The rift in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has only just come out in the open - but the differences were brewing for months.

In January, Shalini Gupta, sister of senior leader Prashant Bhushan, sent out e-mails to members of the AAP Global group, which has around 800 NRI supporters of the party, apparently trying to discourage them from donating money or investing time in the party, sources said. 

Mail Today is in possession of the e-mail exchanges.

In a veiled way, Shalini dissuaded the NRI volunteers and members from supporting the party financially and personally. 

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Yogendra Yadav (centre) and Prashant Bhushan (right) were removed from the AAP's Political Affairs Committee, signally a rift within the party. In a leaked email, Bhushan's sister Shalini Gupta appears to have dissuaded NRI volunteers and members from supporting the party

“Since all of you are important stakeholders in the party, donating your time and money, some straight talk is warranted,” she said in an e-mail sent on January 6. 

The e-mails, sent out on January 5 and 6, make a reference to two camps in the party while raising the issue of the AAP fielding candidates with questionable credentials. 

In her January 5 e-mail, she writes: “…My suggestion is we need to be very careful of the constituency we adopt. There are many candidates in the list this time who would not meet the party clean politics standard.” 

In an e-mail dated January 5 she praises Bhushan for seeking a Lokpal inquiry against 12 party candidates. 

After the party’s internal Lokpal conducted an inquiry, names of two AAP candidates were cancelled. 

But Shalini’s emails were sent before the Lokpal inquiry was completed. Despite repeated attempts to reach Shalini in the United States, she did not respond to the queries. 

Party sources said the top leadership was aware of Shalini’s emails, but took a conscious decision to stay silent. 

“We were aware. But we tried our best to not escalate these issues as our focus was on the elections. There have been many other activities which were against the party, like Shantiji’s letter to Arvind Kejriwal and Prashantji saying that he wanted the party to lose elections,” a source in AAP told Mail Today. 

Party leaders said while there was no visible impact on the amount of foreign donations received, Shalini’s e-mails were somewhat damaging. 

“There was no visible impact on our foreign donations as it remained almost 30 per cent of the total funds received which was almost same as 2013 Assembly elections,” a source said.

NRI volunteers and members said the e-mails did not really discourage them from supporting the party. 

“I saw the e-mail but did not give it much thought. It did not deter me. But we, the NRI supporters, want the leadership to stick together,” said Deepak Lingwal, from Singapore. 

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AAP leader Mayank claims 'Delhi decision makers' are attacking him 

By Heena Kausar

Published: 23:13 GMT, 7 March 2015 | Updated: 23:13 GMT, 7 March 2015

After questioning the ouster of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from Political Affairs Committee, senior leader Mayank Gandhi has now claimed that a small group of “decision makers in Delhi” are attacking him.

On the other hand, another leader Anjali Damania has accused Bhushan of wanting the party to lose the recent Delhi Assembly polls. 

Alleging that a “concerted attempt” was being made on social media to call him anti-party and anti-Kejriwal, Gandhi said he might be humiliated so much in the party that it could lead him to quit AAP.

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Senior leader Mayank Gandhi has now claimed that a small group of “decision makers in Delhi” are attacking him. Another leader Anjali Damania has accused Prashant Bhushan of wanting the party to lose the recent Delhi Assembly polls

“More will come and I will be finally humiliated so much that I will quit. That was what was planned for YY (Yadav) and PB (Bhushan), but they overturned that plan by staying inside the party. Let me see if I can withstand the muck that will be thrown,” he said in his latest blog. 

“On January 27, I met Prashant ji (Bhushan) at his office. I was stunned when he said that he wanted the party to lose in Delhi Assembly elections. I was so upset that I picked up my bag and walked out of his office,” Damania said. 

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She also alleged that Bhushan discouraged donors when the AAP was facing cash crunch. Gandhi, who had abstained from voting in the National Executive meeting held on Wednesday, said that his blog was not to weaken the party or the leadership but to strengthen the AAP and the principles that the party espouses. 

“A price may have to be paid. A small group of party decision makers in Delhi have already removed me from the informal BBM group. Attacks have begun against me from Ashish Khetan and others,” he wrote in his blog. 

Khetan in a Tweet had said: “Some people give television interviews all through the day, while some work for the progress of Delhi and country. Some people write blogs, while some people write history.” 

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