AAP's brush with controversies can be seen in the
allegations put over the party, and they in turn, tell how the party is
evolving (or devolving with time).
During its foundation years, the party was basically embroiled
in ideological and financial controversies.
The ideological rifts made many activist brethren of India
Against Corruption, the umbrella outfit to organize the 2011 anti-corruption
movement, to walk away from the group of Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra
Yadav. Many like Captain Gopinath or Anjali Damania or Mayank Gandhi left the
party on ideological plank only. Some other like Kiran Bedi or Shazia Ilmi who
were there together in the movement chose to migrate to different political
ideologies.
Along with these ideological contradictions, the allegations
of financial impropriety had a continued run - basically about financial
mismanagement and laundering of IAC funds and about AAP's sources of political
funding.
With the formation of the first AAP government in Delhi, the
party saw the minor controversies like Rakhi Bidlan antics but there were effectively
taken care of by AAP's populist anti-VIP measures.
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©SantoshChaubey
