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As a party born out of a historic anti-corruption movement, the Aam Aadmi Party holds itself to the highest standards of probity. People were tired of the status quo, nepotistic, dynastic, corrupt, criminal and communal nature of our politics, and AAP’s emergence was a breath of fresh air in this backdrop. There are several reasons that make the Aam Aadmi Party unique and synonymous with the idea of honest and alternative politics in India:
Kultar Singh Sandhwan is an Indian politician and the MLA representing the Kotkapura Assembly Constituency. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is the current speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
AAP is India’s first political party to reject the use of red beacon cars for elected representatives and Ministers. In 2013, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Cabinet became the first to shun the use of red beacons of their official vehicles. This set the tone for other political leaders and parties to follow ever since.
AAP’s Constitution forbids two members of the same family to contest elections or to hold a position on an executive body of the party. AAP believes that political dynasties have monopolised entire parties and governments for decades, which has damaged the democratic vision of the founding fathers of our country.
In April 2011, a civil society movement was born in the backdrop of big ticket corruption scandals that came to light during the Congress-led UPA regime. A group of activists from varied backgrounds had come together to demand the enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill – a legislation that had been stuck in Parliamentary committees for decades. With public anger against corruption building up with every expose that came from the news media, the demand for a strong law that could deal with a corrupt political establishment found widespread support among ordinary Indians. Under the banner of India Against Corruption, Indians rose up in protest against the government of the day, demanding the Jan Lokpal be passed immediately.
Spanning over two years, across hundreds of cities, towns and villages, lakhs of people mobilised themselves for this cause. Protest marches, gheraos of politicians, social media campaigns – a revolution had begun. Led by social activist Anna Hazare, thousands of people in several locations sat on fasts on three separate occasions to build support for the Jan Lokpal Bill, and pressure the government into acting on people’s demand. At the end of the third and final fast, despite all efforts of the IAC, the Parliament had still not come around to passing the Jan Lokpal.
The failure of the government to agree to the people’s demands was the result of the deeply entrenched corruption that had decayed India’s political establishment. A Jan Lokpal was directly detrimental to the interests of the political parties and their leaders. That’s when one section of IAC activists, led by Arvind Kejriwal, decided that the only way to rid this country of corruption was to join politics, enter government and clean up the system from within. Thus began the journey of the anti-corruption protest towards the political revolution called the Aam Aadmi Party.
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