Post date: Feb 02, 2014 2:57:1 PM
One of the founding members of India's regional Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man Party,Madhu Bhaduri resigns from the party, saying it has deviated from the path of humanity and insulted women.
NEW DELHI, INDIA (FEBRUARY 02, 2014) (ANI) - One of the founding members of India's regional Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man Party, Madhu Bhaduri resigned from the party on Sunday (February 02), saying that it has deviated from the path of humanity.
She was disappointed with controversial Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, embroiled in an alleged prostitution and drug trafficking case involving Ugandan women."They (common man party) should at least apologise to women whom they have insulted. I had presented a resolution that the party should apologise to those women. That's it. The party should apologise, party members, party supporters have insulted the women. So the party has to respect humanity," she said.
Apparently, she was also discontent with the failure of the party to provide night shelters due to which 11 homeless people died as a result of bone chilling cold in New Delhi.
Bhaduri added that the party is just aiming for parliamentary elections.
"Is the common man party on a self destructive mode or a self constructive mode? They are at a very dangerous mode. And the dangerous thing is that they have only one aim that by hook or by crook, they want to win the elections and for that they'll do anything possible," said Bhaduri.
Bharti has been embroiled in a controversy ever since he called the police in south Delhi to bust an alleged prostitution and drug racket.
He had alleged that Ugandan nationals were part of a drug and prostitution racket and asked the police to search the house that the minister claimed was being used as a brothel. However, police refused to comply with the orders, saying they did not have a warrant to go in.
On the other hand, the four Ugandan women, in a complaint to Delhi police, alleged that they were molested by a group of supporters of Bharti. They also alleged that they were forced to undergo medical examinations at a government hospital.
Meanwhile, former AAP leader Vinod Kumar Binny accused the party for playing with emotions of the people.
"I have been saying right from the first day about what I have felt while I was part of the common man party. The party is neither sincere towards women nor towards people of Delhi. They just know how to use people. They have a use and throw policy. They want to make sure that they want to use as many people as possible and move ahead. Their aim is to win the parliamentary elections. They want to become the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister. They have no aim of serving people of Delhi," he said.
AAP expelled Binny on January 26 in less than two weeks after he called Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal a "liar" and a "dictator".
Binny, who won from the constituency of Laxmi Nagar in New Delhi assembly polls, did not make it to the berth of cabinet ministers. In fact, he claimed to have refused to be a part of the cabinet when he was selected.
Meanwhile, India's Junior Farm Minister, Tariq Anwar said that history has seen the rise and fall of such political parties and AAP will meet the same fate.
"We have seen in the past that such political parties rise to power and then they meet their end as well and their names vanish from the pages of the history. The case is similar with Aam Aadmi Party (common man party). The way they have come, they will go in the same way. What Madhuji (founder member of AAP) has said is right, she is a founder member, when she has such a feeling then those people who were connected to her emotionally, what they must be thinking today? This is an issue to think about as well," said Anwar.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which emerged from an anti-corruption movement, trounced the rulingCongress party in Delhi in the assembly polls last year. But main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party with 32 members.
However, the BJP refused to form government as it lacked majority.
Though Congress could manage only eight seats, they agreed to give external support to AAP to form government that got 28 seats in 70-member Delhi legislature.
The Aam Aadmi Party is widening its grip across the country with its ambition to contest general elections from maximum number of states and in as many seats as possible.