Saturday, January 31, 2015

Why or When did I start supporting AAP?

People ask me why or when I started supporting AAP?
Up to 2011, I preferred BJP over the Congress as I considered the BJP a better party.
When the Singur agitations was going on, one month before Ratna Tata actually decided to shift the Nano project to Gujarat, i had stated in our blog that the Nano would go to Gujarat as I considered Narendra Modi very dynamic.
However, when the agitation of Anna started in 2011, I started supporting them and became their member,
In 2012, when IAC sent SMS to all members asking their opinion on the formation of a political party, I was one of the millions who gave our approval.
AAP was formed on 26th November 2012.
Up to now, on seeing movies like "Naik" or "Singham", we would only wish that in actual life there were heroes who could take on the establish
ment and straighten these crooks. 
However, in actual life, when somebody dares to take them on, we all scoff at him. 
We prefer to sit in our armchairs, in front of a TV, taking our tea, citicising the system, the corruption but will not help a person who wants to clean the system. 
When Gandhiji started his movement to rid India of the British, their must have been many Zamindars and government employees who scoffed at him and, may be, even hindered him by spying on him and reporting to the British. 
But the movement succeeded, didn't it? 
This movement, to rid India of corruption, which we call the second war of independence will also succeed, with or without you. The minds of Indians are fired with new hopes. Millions of volunteers are working all over India and the world, giving time and money for this cause.
When you are old and when your grand children ask you whether you were part of the movement which rid India of corrupt politicians, what answer will you give them?

AAP presently requires both your money and your time to make calls to Delhi citizens.
We have so far collected about Rs 13 crores for the elections.
During the last elections for Delhi in 2013, we had collected Rs 20 crores and thereafter stopped our collections.
Has any party ever stopped collecting donations after reaching their collection target?
That is our AAP.

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