The success of AAM AADMI PARTY within 2 years of its inception as a political party is due to the hard work of thousands of volunteers. The IAC movement brought together millions of people across India, all of them were unanimously demanding a strong Janlokpal Bill to be passed that would check corruption in the country. The benefits of growth has not reached the masses owing to corruption.
After a string of hunger strikes it was felt that in order to achieve the target it was imperative for the anti-corruption activists to go to the parliament themselves. So on 26th November 2012, the Aam Aadmi Party was born. IAC has most volunteers from the state of Delhi, so AAP decided to start with Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal exposed the various wrongdoings of the then Delhi Government and also the centre and other state governments through a series of press conferences.
Other political parties generate funds through dubious means, but AAP decided to give account of each and every rupee that was donated by the people. In India no political party has to declare any donation that's below Rs 20,000. So a series of bogus donations of amounts less than Rs 20,000 are made to the political parties, most of this money is black money.
AAP had a fraction of the amount of money that other political parties had, but what it did have was a battery of selfless volunteers who went door to door campaigning for the party , made calls after calls to the people of Delhi and wrote wall posts , blogs and campaigned for AAP online. They were not paid a single penny for their efforts. Most of the time they themselves spent money from their own pocket to campaign for AAP.
During the Delhi elections campaign it was common to see the sight of youngsters standing on the road holding a banner of AAP besides giant cut outs and posters of BJP and Congress which cost a few lakhs.While BJP had pockets deep enough to give page length advertisements on all major newspapers published in Delhi, even on election day , against the rules. It was the clean intent of the AAP candidates and the immense selflessness and passion of AAP volunteers from across the nation that saw AAP sweeping Delhi, getting 67 seats out of 70 seatswith a mere 3 seats going to the BJP.
The selflessness levels of AAP volunteers can be gauged from the fact that many of them left their jobs , took sabbaticals , shut their shops to campaign for AAP. They did it without any self interest , there were people from other parts of the nation who visited Delhi to campaign for AAP. The only thing they had was fire in their belly and a deep love for their motherland whom they wanted to free from the devil of corruption.
Thinking about the sacrifices that AAP volunteers had made in run up to the Delhi elections at times brings tears to the eyes. Some of them were even beaten up and booked under false cases by the police that is under the central BJP government , but at the end of the day the passion of the volunteers won. This unselfish passion will change the nation.
Hat's off to all the AAP volunteers.
After a string of hunger strikes it was felt that in order to achieve the target it was imperative for the anti-corruption activists to go to the parliament themselves. So on 26th November 2012, the Aam Aadmi Party was born. IAC has most volunteers from the state of Delhi, so AAP decided to start with Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal exposed the various wrongdoings of the then Delhi Government and also the centre and other state governments through a series of press conferences.
Other political parties generate funds through dubious means, but AAP decided to give account of each and every rupee that was donated by the people. In India no political party has to declare any donation that's below Rs 20,000. So a series of bogus donations of amounts less than Rs 20,000 are made to the political parties, most of this money is black money.
AAP had a fraction of the amount of money that other political parties had, but what it did have was a battery of selfless volunteers who went door to door campaigning for the party , made calls after calls to the people of Delhi and wrote wall posts , blogs and campaigned for AAP online. They were not paid a single penny for their efforts. Most of the time they themselves spent money from their own pocket to campaign for AAP.
During the Delhi elections campaign it was common to see the sight of youngsters standing on the road holding a banner of AAP besides giant cut outs and posters of BJP and Congress which cost a few lakhs.While BJP had pockets deep enough to give page length advertisements on all major newspapers published in Delhi, even on election day , against the rules. It was the clean intent of the AAP candidates and the immense selflessness and passion of AAP volunteers from across the nation that saw AAP sweeping Delhi, getting 67 seats out of 70 seatswith a mere 3 seats going to the BJP.
The selflessness levels of AAP volunteers can be gauged from the fact that many of them left their jobs , took sabbaticals , shut their shops to campaign for AAP. They did it without any self interest , there were people from other parts of the nation who visited Delhi to campaign for AAP. The only thing they had was fire in their belly and a deep love for their motherland whom they wanted to free from the devil of corruption.
Thinking about the sacrifices that AAP volunteers had made in run up to the Delhi elections at times brings tears to the eyes. Some of them were even beaten up and booked under false cases by the police that is under the central BJP government , but at the end of the day the passion of the volunteers won. This unselfish passion will change the nation.
Hat's off to all the AAP volunteers.
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