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Arvind Kejriwal releases 1st short list of AAP candidates for Delhi election

24/5/2013

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After lots of speculation the much awaited first shortlist of Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) for the upcoming Delhi Assembly election to be held in November this year was released here in Delhi today. The list for a total of 12 assemble constituencies was released by Arvind Kejriwal himself at a press conference at the Constitution Club, Delhi. Addressing the press meet, Arvind said, “A total of 106 persons had initially applied for candidature and a candidate screening committee was constituted co-chaired by Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh”. He further added, “The prime objective of the screening committee was to investigate about the social background of the candidates and ensure that they don’t have any past criminal records or allegations. The screening committee also ensured that no two candidates from the same family get enlisted”.

Among the 106 applied the screening committee selected a total of 44 candidates and the popular faces that flashed were of AAP national executive members Shazia IIlmi, from the R.K. Puram and Manish Sisodia from Patparganj constituencies. Briefing further about the candidates and the selection procedure Kejriwal said, “We have candidates from varied professional backgrounds including IIT engineers, lawyers, journalists, former defense personnel etc. and the most interesting part is that shortlist also consists of some former congress and BJP workers, whose screening was done with utmost care to ensure that they previously maintained a spotless social background and were not being chased out by their respective parties for unethical work.”

From each constituency there are 3-5 probable candidates and the complete list will be on the official website of AAP for 15 days and Arvind asked the people to have a glance at the names appearing in the list and inform AAP if there’s any information or records that unfit them for candidature with proper evidence. If credible evidence of any wrong doing is received against any of the candidates, their names will be taken off the shortlist. It is to be noted that AAP had disclosed in its candidate selection process a few weeks back, and after 15 days from now there would be debate among the candidates in their respective constituencies and lastly the final candidate would be selected on the basis of preferential voting by the active volunteers of that particular region.

Replying to media queries Arvind quoted, “The final list of the first short list would come up by 15thJune’2013 and within the next one week from now the second short list is likely to be announced and the final process is expected to be completed by the end of July”

Why the final preferential voting will only be done by AAP volunteers and why the common non-volunteers are not included, is perhaps also an important question that Arvind much introspect on.

Certainly, on papers the selection procedure seems to be very much innovative and constructive one, but at the same time it’s challenging too. However, how it is actually executed will be an important thing to look into in the due course of time. Moreover, how the voters actually anticipate to the process will be interesting to find out.

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hemen parekh link
25/9/2013 03:23:06 pm

A Tale of Two Countries

China

 Bo Xilai was a member of Central Politburo of the Chinese Government ( equal to a Central Cabinet Minister in India )

 He was arrested a year back and tried for corruption / taking bribes / misusing official position. Not granted bail ( unheard of in China )

 Trial lasted 5 days – at the end of which , he was convicted , and punished for 20 years of con-current prison terms

 He can appeal but in China , there is no precedence of a higher court setting aside , an order of a lower court !


India

 Of our 4500 MPs / MLAs , approx 1500 ( 30 % ) , have criminal cases pending against them

 Of these , some 600 have , “ Serious Criminal Cases “ ( murder / rape etc ) pending against them

 A few hundred are already “ Convicted “ and have appealed in higher courts

 All are out on bail and attending Lok Sabha / State Legislatures

 Our Supreme Court considered this ( freedom ) as “ Unconstitutional / Illegal “ and passed an order that MPs / MLAs , who have received punishments of 2 years or more , cannot be granted bail ( even if they have appealed ) and must stay in jail. Neither can they vote , nor contest an election

 Central Government filed a “ Review Petition “ in Supreme Court , which refused to change its earlier ruling

 So , as expected , Central Government decided to bring out an Ordinance to nullify Supreme Court verdict !


What Next ?

 Within 2 months , Ordinance must be converted into a proper law , by passing it in Lok Sabha

 Since ALL parties have “ Criminal “ MPs / MLAs , you bet , the law will be passed unanimously !


Voters of India

The only political party which is not a party to this heinous conspiracy against Democracy and therefore against the People of India , is the Aam Admi Party ( not having a single MP / MLA so far ? )


Let us vote it to power . That is the only way to test their promise of a corruption-free government


May be we can still stop this rape of our Motherland !


• hemen parekh ( 25 Sept 2013 )

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