This Article is From Mar 05, 2015

AAP has Struggled Between Ideals of Viability And Ethics: Yogendra Yadav to NDTV

New Delhi:

Yogendra Yadav speaks to NDTV after being dropped from key AAP panel. Here are the highlights:

  • Last few days have been very humbling, there has been an outpouring of support.
  • My life so far was a preparation for what I'm doing today.
  • Pain insignificant compared to support I get from people.
  • Hard to get used to the muck that comes along with politics.
  • If politics is your dharma, you must pass through the muck.
  • It is not for me to comment on what Mayank has said. All I can say is that, in the last instance, truth will prevail.
  • Won't talk about what happened at the national executive yesterday. I know Mayank has chosen to write on it and he has given his reasons.
  • Arvind Kejriwal is an icon of honest politics, a symbol of hope to millions.
  • It is the voices of the workers that has kept the AAP on course .
  • If our departure has helped served the ideals of AAP, what more than two persons ask for.
  • Whole spirit of AAP is not to reduce it to any other party, we have grown up opposing personality politics.
  • Of course we are on talking terms (on his relations with AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal)
  • All that Parshant Bhushan, I have asked  that we should be walking in the right direction or at least facing the right direction.
  • Continue to believe that this movement which is owned by lakhs of volunteers, their faith and hopes will be reflected in the way the party evolves.
  • Arvind Kejriwal has iconic status but AAP isn't a personality oriented party.
  • Personality isn't the real issue, internal democracy and principles are.
  • I have deep faith that from all these problems something beautiful will emerge. I may not be there but how does that matter?
  • My being in a committee or not being in a committee will certainly not determine whether I'm in politics or not.

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