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.
