New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party founder member Shanti Bhushan, today, praised Kiran Bedi and said that he would be happy if she becomes the chief minister. Bhushan described BJP’s decision to anoint Bedi as CM candidate as a masterstroke.
It is a master stroke by BJP to bring Kiran Bedi ji and declare her party’s CM candidate. Kiran ji made a huge contribution to ‘India against Corruption’, she would provide a very clean and efficient administration (as CM),” he said, adding, “BJP recognized force of Anna’s andolan and were forced to bring as CM candidate, a crusader (Kiran Bedi) against corruption
I think everything is not right in AAP, party is not being run on lines it was expected to run or what it was established for. Reorientation within AAP is very much needed, their stress must be on reforming political system, improving political standards,” he said.
Bhushan is regarded as the patriarch of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as well as being its biggest donor. And while he’s declared himself to be staunchly against the BJP, Bhushan’s views are reflective of the difficulty that voters energised by 2011’s India against Corruption (IAC) movement may face—choosing between Kejriwal and Bedi, who emerged as leaders during that campaign. The first went on to form AAP, of which Shanti Bhushan and son Prashant Bhushan became an integral part. Bedi chose to stay away from politics until she took the plunge and joined the BJP last week.
Bhushan said his endorsement of Bedi didn’t extend to her party. I am against the BJP because of their communal agenda. But I know Kiran very well and she is a secular and an honest person and does not have a communal agenda. I don’t think she will let BJP’s communal politics work in Delhi,” he said. “She is a woman and her first priority on the list is women’s safety. Having been a police officer, she can provide women’s safety in a big way. Therefore, I don’t think there is anything lacking in her except that she is in BJP.
On Bedi’s statements praising the RSS, Bhushan said, “RSS has some good things but they have one bad aspect that they get ant-Islam at times…if she has praised good aspects of RSS then there is no wrong.”
Bhushan refused to choose between Bedi and Kejriwal but quipped, “Even if Kejriwal does not become CM and Kiran Bedi becomes CM then also its good. Bhushan is the patron of AAP and its biggest donor.
Bureau Report
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