New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal had launched a new drive to raise fund for party on Saturday. Former Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal had come up with challenge campaign by launching “I Fund Honest Party Challenge”.
Kejriwal himself donate Rs. 10,000 and kicked off the campaign and nominate 11 others including his family members to donate party’s poll campaign.
“I am kick starting this campaign by paying up Rs 10,000 and challenging 11 people to Fund for Honest politics. Like other parties, we don’t take money from those who take donations from people owning power discoms,” said Kejriwal.
He meanwhile criticizes other parties and said, “They take their donation, but then they have to dance to the industrialists’ tunes. We are taking money from people. So we will work in the interest of the common public.”
Kejriwal also declared that any amount of money, even Rs 10 can be donated to the fund, if the person’s name is nominated.
He said, “Anyone can pay as low as Rs 10, if he/she is nominated for the campaign. The names of the donors will be immediately uploaded on the party website.”
In his statement, AAP said, “This is a donor-get-donor programme appealing to donors to take the challenge, make a donation and send an appeal to 10 of their friends and family members to also donate and participate in the challenge. As more people join the challenge, a network of donors, referrals and participants will be built and the message of #IFundHonestParty shall spread to a wide number of people.”
Kejriwal had challenged Bharatiya Janata Party to disclose its sources of fund and said, “If politics is funded by clean money then the woes of the people can come to an end as any government coming to power will not work under the pressure of industrialists…it will work in the interest of people.”
The 11 people whom Kejriwal nominated are as follows: His brother Manoj and sister Ranjana Kejriwal, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj, actress as well as party leader Gul Panag, businessman Subhash Khandelwal, his family friend Vipin Mittal, his close aide Aswathi Muralidharan, NRIs Amit Agarwal and Munish Raizada, a law student Mohammad Kasim and his IIT batchmate Subroto Saha.
Bureau Report
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