EXCLUSIVE THE BASTARD-CHILD OF INDIAN POLITICS, Aam Admi Party (AAP), FIGHTS TOOTH AND NAIL TO WIN PUNJAB & GOA ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS And why the AAP USA Bay Area Chapter is making sure that it does! By Meena Yeggina
without any concrete evidences, shows the utmost bias popular media has against this fledgling AA Party. “Is this even ethical?” wonder the volunteers of AAP here in the Bay Area. They bristle with anger yet set out on their tweets and face- book posts in strong support of AAP. According to several volun- teers, Congress and BJP want to get rid of AAP to save their own skin, and meek media houses under the ownership of corporates are falling in line to sing their tunes. “It’s this huge hopeful volunteer base, and the conviction of Arvind Kejriwal, AAP’s leader, that are the party’s major strengths. Otherwise the entire system is working against
turns looting the country and alter- nately looking after each other backs as well. In addition to keeping at bay the vitriolic and vengeful po- litical parties and corporations who are gunning for its destruction, AAP also fights against a biased and irre- sponsible mainstreammedia-witch- hunt which goes out of its way to dampen its spirits. So much so that a top TV channel, News 18, part- owned by the powerful Ambanis and ruling party’s supporter, brought out the controversial, and in AAP’s view “illegal,” Shunglu Commission report set up by Delhi’s past Lt. Governor Najib Jung to check the Government’s work in the last two years. This, just 48 hours before the crucial elections
“If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true na- ture, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.” Rumi 10:30 pm Saturday night, January 28, Raja Restaurant, Union City, California. It’s the final week of frantic campaigning and making that im- portant phone call to Punjab/Goa voter; for that much-needed push when every vote could change the future of Punjab and Goa-two small states in India but crucial in decid- ing its future course of political leadership. Elections are around the corner, on the 4th of February, and the fledgling Aam Aadmi Party is contesting in both states and seem- ingly fighting the entire system to make a mark in the Indian electoral arena. If they win even one state, they would be creating history in being the youngest party ever to win two states (Delhi being the other) at such a short age. Further- more, it would also be the only other party besides Congress, the major opposition party, and the rul- ing BJP to be currently governing more than one state. Both Congress and BJP are more than 50-years-old and are rooted in the system and al- legedly, according to Kejriwal, take
Maninder Pal Singh and Harchet Singh of Raja Sweets in Union City keep the volunteerrs awake with dinner, tea and snacks
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