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एक लंबी पोस्ट भेजने के लिए क्षमा चाहते हुए । आम आदमी पार्टी को लेकर चल रही चर्चा के बीच उठाये जा रहे कुछ सवाल व सही तथ्य आपसे साँझा कर रहा हूँ जी | Since last night social media has been used to create divisions within Aam Aadmi Party and to spread canard against Sh Prashant Bhushan & Yogendra Yadav. Here are the allegations (listed in red) and the facts. Annexures follow. Would be happy to supply any additional information. Facts about slander campaign being run against Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan 1. Post-Lok Sabha, when AAP and AK was down and out, YY targetted him personally and resigned publicly. Instead of a discussion on his failures in Haryana and rest of India because of his failed surveys, YY put the onus of AK. In fact YY had told the party that in Haryana, AAP would get 23% of the vote but it got only 4%. In fact, the trioka of PB-YY-Shanti Bhushan is the one that kept pressing the party to contest more and more lok sabha seats. FACT: 1A: YY resignation did not blame AK for the defeat. At no stage, formally or informally did YY or PB blame AK for Loksabha 2014 defeat. Indeed YYs letter of resignation did not even refer to the Lok Sabha results and fixing of blames. (Attached: YY’s letter) 1B: During Lok Sabha elctions, YY did not conduct any Survey for the party. Infact the party did not have money to conduct an All India survey. Will anyone produce any email or PPT to prove otherwise? 1C: YY engaged Cicero on behalf of the party to conduct surveys in Haryana and UP in January-February 2014. In UP it showed that the party was nowhere in the reckoning. In Haryana the survey was done before Delhi resignation and showed AAP at 22% votes, a fact confirmed by other independent polls at that time. As in delhi, the party’s fortune in Haryana took a nose dive after the resignation in Delhi. Infact all this survey data and analysis were shared in a meeting with all the LS candidates on 5-6 July. 1D: At no stage did YY nor PB advocate contesting 400 plus seats. In the aftermath of success in Delhi election YY had submitted a strategy paper that advocated contesting about 100 seats(All seats in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, All seats in NCR and other Metro areas and symbolic contests outside that). The suggestion about contesting nearly all the seats was made by Sri Shanti Bhushan in the NE meeting conducted on 2-3 January. This was unanimously approved by the NE including by AK himself. Infact AK endorsed the suggestion in the meeting by saying “Lets go for Broke”. Since the proceedings of this meeting were recorded, will the party please release the recording to confirm facts about this matter in that meeting. 2. In July, Shanti Bhushan wrote to AK and asked him to resign as National Convenor. At several occasions, PB and his father have made it known that they want AK to step down as national convenor. 3. In August, when NE unanimously took the decision not to contest Haryana, stories were planted against AK in the media and he was personally targetted. Recording of journalist admitting that YY planted the story was played at NE. Here is that story targeting AK and Party, published in The Hindu: FACT: Entire allegation is based on one clandestine phone recording with the journalist who wrote this article. She does not refer to the fact that the breakfast meeting was attended by two other journalist. Why did the other journolists not run stories that YY was allegedly planting? Why did she hold these disclosures for more than two weeks? What was the context of this conversation? Was she threatened with Legal action and resorted to YY’s name as an alibi? Her version of the meeting has been challanged by a senior Journalist Mr. SP Singh (Woking with news channel ) who was present at the breakfast on 15th of August. He email says “Let me tell you that I too had recd a call from people in your party soon after that story had appeared in The Hindu. This fellow wanted to know what YY had talked about etc and since there wasn't much to tell, I merely stated the facts. He had then asked me about the contents of the Hindu story and I told him that the journalist clearly would have other sources. It is only with this twenty-twenty hindsight wisdom that I know understand what he was fishing for. I hope my conversation was also not recorded, or perhaps it was and was not found suitably juicy!”. Within a week of these allegations YY had written to the lokpal requesting him to carry out an investigation into the facts of the case. The Lokpal did not deem it fit to do so. I am sure YY would be happy if the lokpal were to conduct an enquiry. 4. From May to October 2014, when Delhi AAP organisation was being built, Prashant and YY openly supported a dissident group called AVAM. Shanti Bhushan issued 2 videos in support of AVAM which openly fought with AK and official Delhi team. On the eve of VS elections, it was clearly proved that AVAM was working for BJP and some of its members had joined BJP. FACT: Neither PB nor YY ever joined SB in supporting AVAM. There is not a shred of evidence linking YY to AVAM. AVAM leader contacted YY (Infact he immediately brought it to AK’s notice) but YY refused to join their cause. PB dealt with AVAM in his capacity as chairman of National disciplinary committee, since Karan appealed to the National Disciplinary Committee against his expulsion. PB found out that one critical evidence used to expel Karan Singh was a forged SMS and insisted that the pary should track down the source of the said SMS. 5. After NE had clearly said that AK would get a free hand and also decide candidates of Delhi, Prashant and YY started interfering with the candidate selection. Every new entrant who became a candidate was targeted. 6. When YY and PB realised that AAP was on the verge of doing well, a dozen candidates were targetted but Lokpal found only 2 allegations to be true. Even after those candidates were changed, Shanti Bhushan went public in order to damage AAP's electoral prospects. FACT: PB and YY did not interfere with AK’s decisions regarding Delhi campaign. In their capacity as members of PAC, the body incharge of selection of candidates, PB and YY insisted that the full information of the background of the candidates must be shared with PAC members, that background of candidates coming from other parties should be thoroughly examined, that volunteer voting on candidate must be held in a fair and transparent manner, that the bio data of all candidate should be placed on the website for public feedback before finalization of names. PB and YY received a number of serious complaints against many of our candidates. They referred 12 of these cases to the Lokpal for final decision. The Lokpal exonerated only 4 of them unconditionally. 6 of these candidates were given a conditional clearance due to shortage of time. The Lokpal has asked the secretary to serve warning to these six even after they have been elected. In two cases the allegations were so grave that the lokpal ordered immediate cancellation of candidature on the eve of nomination 7. By first week of January, AAP's internal survey began to show a big lead, immediately YY increased his TV appearances from once in a 2/3 days to 2/3 times a day. Clearly, he wanted to be seen as one of the winning team. FACT: Parties internal surveys showed a 3% lead for AAP in end December. YY did all the duties assigned to him including daily Media Strategy, Media Conference call and Media Appearances as and when required. Since the media had more time for election coverage in the last month leading to the election the appearances increased proportionately. Regards, Anupam राजीव गोदारा एडवोकेट पंजाब एंड हरियाणा हाई कोर्ट चंडीगढ़। मोबाईल 09417150798 -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. 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