169. Aam Aadmi Party founder member and former MP Ilyas Azmi on Monday quit the party

केजरीबाई और उसकी ठग मण्डली को लोग अब धीरे-धीरे पहचानते जा रहे हैं...............!!!

Aam Aadmi Party founder member and former MP Ilyas Azmi on Monday quit the party citing “lack of inner democracy” in the organisation and convener Arvind Kejriwal’s “autocratic style of functioning”, almost a week after he was dropped from party’s top decision-making bodies.

Azmi accused Kejriwal of indulging in caste and community-based politics and of ignoring Muslims and people from backward classes. “There is no inner democracy in the party. It has been reduced to one man’s property,” Azmi said. “Also, Muslims and people from backward classes are completely being ignored.

There is hardly any Muslim representation in AAP. Kejriwal is appointing people of his own community to key posts in the government. He is openly giving preference to people of his own community in the party too,” he claimed. He said he was also against the removal of lawyer Prashant Bhushan and psychologist-turned-politician Yogendra Yadav from the party.

Asserting that AAP was founded on principles which were against caste and community politics, Azmi said, “But now AAP itself is indulging in community politics even more than Mulayam Singh Yadav. So I stopped participating in party’s activities. He also alleged that rules were not followed during the rejig and decisions on appointments were made well in advance.