Shock to AAP before elections, Kailash Gehlot left the party
#News Bureau November 17,2024
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party has suffered a major setback ahead of the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. One of its senior leaders Kailash Gehlot has resigned from the post of Transport Minister in the Delhi government and with this he has also left the party. He has resigned from the primary membership of the party. He has not yet announced joining any party, but speculations are being made about BJP on social media.
In his resignation letter addressed to Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, Gehlot cited unfulfilled promises and recent controversies as the reason for leaving the post. Apart from transport, Gehlot held departments like administrative reforms, IT, Home and Women and Child Development.
In a letter to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, Gehlot said that the party has moved away from fighting for the rights of the people and has started fighting for its political agenda. In the letter, he wrote, ‘Another sad thing is that instead of fighting for the rights of the people, we are fighting only for our political agenda. This has also badly affected our ability to provide basic services to the people of Delhi. Now it is clear that if the Delhi government spends most of its time fighting the Center, then there can be no real progress for Delhi.’
Gehlot enumerated the challenges facing the party. He said, ‘I also want to share with you that today the Aam Aadmi Party is facing serious challenges. Along with internal challenges, there are also challenges to the values due to which we came to the Aam Aadmi Party. Political ambitions have overtaken our commitment to the people, due to which many promises have remained unfulfilled. Take for example the Yamuna river, which we promised to turn into a clean river, but could never do so. Now the Yamuna river has probably become more polluted than before.’
He also highlighted the failure to clean the Yamuna river even though it was a major election promise. “We promised the people a clean Yamuna, but we have failed to fulfil that commitment,” he wrote.
Apart from this, now there are many embarrassing and strange controversies like ‘Sheeshmahal’, which are now making everyone doubt whether we still believe in being a common man.
He further said that the constant tussle between the Delhi government and the central government has hindered the progress of the city. Gehlot said, ‘It is now clear that if the Delhi government spends most of its time fighting the Center, real progress is not possible for Delhi.’
Kailash Gehlot said at the end of the letter that he has no option but to distance himself from the party. He wrote, ‘I have no option left but to distance myself from AAP, so I am resigning from the primary membership of the party.’
The resignation of Gehlot, who was an important minister in the Kejriwal government, before the Delhi assembly elections to be held in February is a big setback for the Aam Aadmi Party. Gehlot is a Jat leader who is from Mitraon village in Delhi. He joined AAP before the 2015 assembly elections and won the Najafgarh seat. He won again in 2020. It is believed that the BJP will now use Kailash Gehlot’s resignation and the comments made by him in the election campaign against the Aam Aadmi Party. The BJP has also said in a tweet that everyone is going to run away from Kejriwal’s sinking boat.
According to a report, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi has accepted Kailash Gehlot’s resignation. India Today quoted AAP sources as saying that Gehlot was under the scanner of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate and had previously faced raids by the ED and Income Tax Department, which forced him to resign.
AAP sources have said that the BJP is using central agencies like the ED and CBI to target AAP leaders in an attempt to influence the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
