What makes Arvind Kejriwal tick?

[JanjaWeed]

At the moment it's Congress which is making AK tick. But for how long? By the time another trust vote kicks in, political dynamics in both Center & Delhi would have been changed by then.

 

[Indischer]

So, in short, AAP in Gram/Zilla Panchayats/Municipal Corporations/ District and State Governments is Good while Congress/BJP at the Centre is Good.

 

[temujin]

So, in short, AAP in Gram/Zilla Panchayats/Municipal Corporations/ District and State Governments is Good while Congress/BJP at the Centre is Good.

@ Indisher, 'Panchayati raaj' in my opinion represents a more devolved 'top down' form of government which is still based on representative democratic principles as opposed to AAP's 'jan sabhas' where power flows from the bottom to the top.

The trouble with the latter system is that it is unworkable as long as a heirarchy based on elected representatives exists above it at the state and federal level. From a left libertarian perspective, anything at perpetuates power heirarchy and state control has the potential to corrupt, restrict individual freedoms and promote oppression but there is poor fit between the two systems at the practical level as well.

Lets consider AAP's flagship proposal on 'Jansabhas' and participatory budgeting for instance (I won't delve into their economic policies which are so absurd to even merit discussion)

In places where this process has been previously piloted, issues immediately arose in relation to the very undemocratic nature of the local bodies thus created. Since they entailed voluntary participation by members of the public, such forums quickly became dominated by advocacy groups leading to several sections of the population, for instance OAPs and youth, becoming excluded from them. Moreover, the scope of these community councils was also limited due to their lack of influence on matters such as taxation, federal budget allocation and fiscal policy in the upper echelons of government. Besides, the local MLA/MP equivalent retained the power of veto on budgetary decisions made by the councils, which severely restricted their autonomy from the state apparatus. Members were elected to local legislative bodies through majority mandate and community councils had no power to demand or effect their recall. So in essence, the 'Porto Alegro' model that APP celebrates in their manifesto was a mere gimmick to placate leftist forces and embed democracy in a society which at the time was deeply distrustful of state authority due to its traumatic experience of colonisation and authoritarian rule.

Based on AK's comments on his MLA Binny's 'Jan Sabhaas', his own vision involves jan sabhaas that have sweeping powers in relation to local budgets, law and order etc, with elected representatives being relegated to mere administrative roles and liable to recall by their constituents. From a logistical point of view, such a system is easier to implement in densly populated urban areas (hence AAP's focus on Delhi) but is only likely to meet with limited success as long as the state retains its prerogative over taxation, fiscal policy and can over ride decisions made by community councils. In other words, AAP's plan is fundamentally incompatible with parlimentary democracy and requires the abolition of all central authority in the long term to work in practice.

In the short term, the objective is therefore to create a network of community councils spread across cities and eventually the whole country and beyond, which would employ collective activism to create a 'counterweight' to the state authority and gradually divest it of its powers. When referring to replacing the 'state', the likes of AK are clear that they do not mean the state in an institutional sense but the nation-state as a physical entity.

Also note the distinction Bookchinists make between 'politics' and 'statecraft', their readiness to participate in the electoral process, join forces with elements that would get them into positions of power from where they can unleash their anti state agenda. This perfectly explains AAP's keeness to get in bed with the Congress and their populist policies in government.

AK himself has stated openly that he sees India as a '100 Switzerlands' (see response to Javed Akthar in OP). This guy should be tried for high treason but instead is being lauded by the paid media as the messiah who will deliver the nation from corruption.

Since common sense is in such short supply among the average McDonalds munching AAP supporter who regards protest as a fashion accessory, one can only hope for the sake of the nation that the rigours of electoral politics and trappings of power would in time persuade AAP to shed some of its subversive ideology and truly embrace the leftist, pseudosecular mainstream.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

The Security of Aam Aadmi by Col. RSN Singh (Ex-R&AW Officer)
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The political churnings of this era raise some important security sector questions. Today we have one of India's foremost security experts, Col RSN Singh, take a closer look at the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party and the potential implications for national security.

Preface : Proxy war by its very nature thrives on political instability. In India's Red Corridor, Kashmir and in the Northeast; investment, infrastructure and social development are becoming increasingly difficult due to the resistance of those very subverted segments. This segment has unleashed a reign of terror on the population in nearly 40 percent of Indian territory. Things have come to a pass wherein political parties have begun to transact vote-bank business with the perpetrators of terror. One ruling party of a particular state owes more than half its seats to the manipulation by maoists. Another politician, the speaker of a Legislative Assembly, owes his legislative position to maoists.

Similarly, there are enough reasons to believe that some politicians are being blackmailed by the ISI and Hafiz Saeed because of their hawala and other links. This was clearly evidenced when separatists in Kashmir met Sartaz Aziz, Nawaz Sharif's envoy in Delhi. It was in evidence also when Hafiz Saeed shared stage with Yasin Malik in Pakistan.

Politics and Stability

The main objective of the perpetrators of proxy war and agents of subversion is therefore to cause and perpetuate a state of instability in the target country. Any political outfit, which propagates instability for political reasons or as a matter of political faith is 'anti-national', because instability usually results in greater insecurity of the 'aam aadmi'.

India after careful and great deliberation chose the Westminster model of democracy. A hung parliament and assembly is not an unusual occurrence. Cobbling together is a compulsion that cannot only be dismissed as political opportunism. Indeed those who decry Indian democracy, which includes many NRIs should reflect on the bitter and fractious nature of politics in other so called matured democracies, such as Britain, the United States (US), Japan, Israel or Italy.

Now, the internal forces of instability in India are the jihadis and their proxies, the maoists and their over-ground activists, and external forces vying for influence in the country for economic and other reasons. The interface of these forces with the 'Aam Aadmi Party' (AAP) will be discussed in detail in the succeeding paras based on unimpeachable evidence.

The Sinister Design of Anti-national Activism

A very cogent anti-corruption movement was launched in India for bringing back Indian money lying in Swiss Bank accounts. This was not merely rhetoric but entirely achievable because many countries during the same period had been able to arm-twist Swiss authorities into recovering the illegitimate money. This was also a period when one mega-scam after another, each overtaking the other in magnitude, had hit the Indian mind and caused revulsion for the ruling dispensation. This movement had the potential to dislodge the government. Now the moot question is where was the need of another movement?

In the first week of April 2011, Anna Hazare sat on hunger strike at Jantar-Mantar demanding a Lokpal Bill. The 'aam aadmi' of the country till then and even now never contemplated this bill, but they definitely wanted the Swiss Bank money brought back to the country. The Lokpal Bill entailed a tortuous constitutional process but recovering Swiss Bank money, given the international environment then was far more convenient. It is not so any longer. The very aim of the Lokpal movement it seems was to kill the movement for Swiss Bank money. Anna Hazare was very-very feeble in raising his voice for this money. Who orchestrated this?

Though Indians were still figuring out the import of the Lokpal Bill, the movement had its ripples in London, Glasgow, New Jersey, Paris and Huston. But for this new movement by Anna, the government would have never dared to go for a mid-night crack-down on Baba Ramdev's vigil exactly two months later. Lokpal Bill had neutralized the 'movement' over black money in Swiss Banks, but not completely.

Anna Movement and US Factor

During the same period, i.e. in April 2011, the US lost out on the medium multirole aircraft (MMRCA) deal. The $12-15 billion contract was important for the US to generate jobs, as the country was going through an unprecedented downturn of its economy. The US felt that it was politically outmaneuvered by its less deserving rivals. The then US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer said that he was 'deeply disappointed' and resigned citing personal reasons. The grapevine in informed circles was that the Americans had decided to teach India a lesson through its 'Agency' in India. This is again a matter of conjecture but it is an established fact that when Ambassador Timothy left India, there was no replacement for a period of eight months, i.e. June 2011 to first week of February 2012. Mr Albert Peter Burleigh was Chargé d'affaires during that period. Never in the history of Indo-US relations had such a glaring diplomatic hiatus been witnessed, not even during 1971 War when the US openly sided with Pakistan. There have been 23 American Ambassadors to India since Independence. All of them barring Mr Burleigh carried the designation of 'Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary'.

Such long absence of an American ambassador in India was unthinkable because of India's geopolitical importance and geo-strategic location in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. This was also at a time when the so-called 'war against terrorism' had not abated in the strategic agenda of the US in which India was a declared partner.

In the third week of August 2011, Anna Hazare again launched his Lokpal Bill movement from Ramlila Ground. It was during the same period when the Arab Spring had hit one country after another, i.e. Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Morocco and Syria. Most of these had similar signatures, which many analysts allegedly attribute to the Americans. The same method of wielding flags, the same use of musical groups, the same mobilization techniques by internet and similar methods of logistics was clearly discernable. There were allegations that the key figures of these protests including in Tahrir Square in Egypt were trained in Western countries or by their embassies. It may be mentioned that the second largest US Embassy with some 400 personnel in the world is in Cairo.

Forces of Destabilization

The two most vicious proxies of external forces of destabilization in India are the Jihadis and the Maoists. The Jihadis are the proxy soldiers of Pakistan who feed on religious fundamentalism. The Maoists are not only proxy soldiers of Chinese interests as is generally understood, they also draw their sustenance from some Missionary organizations and the Western world. In 2008, the killing of social worker Laxminanda Saraswati was allegedly engineered by a certain missionary organizations through Maoists. In March 2012, again in Odisha, two Italian tourists, Bousco Paolo and Claudio Colangelo, in a poorly staged drama got themselves abducted, to be used as bargaining chips for the release of other maoist leaders. Later in April 2012, a group of ten French tourists were deported from Bihar for their collusion with the Maoists. In November 2012 an International Conference in 'Support of Peoples War' in India was held at Hamburg in Germany and was attended by delegates of more than two dozen countries. Members of the European Commission swooped in on Chhattisgarh to watch the trial of Binayak Sen. It was a blatant insult to India, but such is the level of blackmail and influence of Western organizations that the Indian establishment did not even whimper.

The congruency of the respective agendas of Jihadis, Maoists and their international benefactors, has impelled them to collaborate. Elements in the West have been using all these leverages to destabilize countries to further their strategic and economic interests. The US till very recently supported the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Qaeda in Syria (Al Nusra) and Iraq. It has been using ultra-leftist groups to destabilize target countries in Latin America and South America. The umbrella organization of ultra-leftist groups, 'International Revolutionary Movement', is headquartered in Chicago.

The overwhelming presence and influence of maoists and their over- ground activists in Team Anna was palpable. Later these elements drifted to AAP. The US imprint on AAP has already been discussed. To arrive at a proper assessment it is imperative that the views of AAP on other destabilizing forces like Jihadis, Separatists, Pakistan, Terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalists are also considered.

On Batla House encounter Kejriwal categorically says that it was fake and questions the sacrifice of security forces only to tone it down later. To hear his belief click on the links below:

Batla Encounter was a fake - Arvind Kejriwal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-xxVqAppE)

Prashant Bhushan's pro-Maoist proclivities and posturing has been witnessed many times on television. At the peak of the Anna agitation the views expressed by him on Kashmir on television were shocking. Subsequently he tried to mitigate his statement which had no takers. His clarification was unconvincing and can be heard by clicking on the link below:

Kashmir Issue Clarification by Prashant Bhushan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rg7VZFC_M)

Members of AAP have never responded to questions on Maoism, Jihadi Terror and Pakistan. Insinuations have been made about their links with jihadi outfits in Pakistan and Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt through fundamentalist groups in India. Arvind Kejriwal in fact took umbrage when queried about his approach on Pakistan and terror. His hostility to the queries on security of India can be heard by clicking on the link below:

Inspirational opinion of Shri Arvind Kejriwal on Pakistan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbam0bT7Jas)

Kejriwal has been hobnobbing with Islamic Fundamentalists to further his political career. His political transaction with a rabid Islamic Fundamentalist, Tauqeer Raza Khan, accused of spreading communal hostility, can be gleaned by clicking on the link below:

ArvindKejriwal met TauqeerRaza Khan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANJSYTvfTo)

Very recently, a power intoxicated AAP leader Gopal Rai and former leader of the student wing of 'parliamentary revolutionaries' a.ka CPI(ML), the All India Students Association (AISA), insulted a former Army Chief. To watch this violent streak in the AAP leader click on the link below:

Former Army Chief insulted by AAP Leader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-tK4Arcnc)

Conclusion

Whatever the actual conduct, at the core of a domestic political party has to be a nationalist ideology, which is accepted or rejected by the people during elections, depending on the manner in which it translates into governance. A political party which does not divulge its foreign policy and security agenda will obviously raise a lot of questions.

Any political party which relies on the country's instability for growth is anarchist and anti-national. Activism per se can be national and anti-national, creative and destructive. Negative and anti-national activism destroys concepts of hard work, production and progress. It creates cynicism amongst the populace and negates demographic dividends. This is what the inimical forces are doing to India through their proxies which include terrorist outfits, NGOs and political parties. If the agenda of AAP was purely nationalistic it would come clean on where it stands on key issues.

To know the consequences of instability and anarchy caused by subverted extremists one has to look only at Nepal wherein the forces of destabilization were the same as in India. The people realized the anti-national agenda of the maoists and have thrown them out in the recent elections. The disaffection caused by the maoists, nevertheless, continues to cost something as basic as the constitution in Nepal.

 

[bronxbull]

he is the perfect khichdi,

upper caste hindu,qualifying through great instituion by merit and portrayed as the messiah who helps the poor and etc etc self righteous shit,

Educated upper caste people who have been successful try to be secular and dont have the heart and soul for a fight on the street.

so,this is just a example of how they ll all go for a proxy like AK who displays close characteristics than a real stud like Modi who made his way through the streets,because he ll dismantle the upper caste parasite apparatus set up in the bureucracy.

 

[temujin]

India after careful and great deliberation chose the Westminster model of democracy. A hung parliament and assembly is not an unusual occurrence. Cobbling together is a compulsion that cannot only be dismissed as political opportunism. Indeed those who decry Indian democracy, which includes many NRIs should reflect on the bitter and fractious nature of politics in other so called matured democracies, such as Britain, the United States (US), Japan, Israel or Italy.

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I find the article a bit OOT but agree with the general thrust of it. In my opinion, there is no doubt that AK and AAP are anti national but may be not exactly for the reasons the writer identifies. I do not believe AK's anti national sentiments are motivated by a hate for India or its people per se but the idea of India as an sovereign nation-state. It is therefore only natural that he would see common cause with other individuals and groups who similarly desire the breakup of India as a physical entity, albeit for religious and sectrian reasons

 

[CorporateAffairs]

We never said, we wont use govt. cars. We will infact use as much as we can. More true colors of AAPCong comes out..

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought to put the record straight today on what perks he and his six Delhi ministers will be accepting and what they shall eschew.

When the arrival at the state assembly of two of his ministers, Rakhi Birla and Saurabh Bhardwaj, in government cars this morning raised eyebrows, the Aam Aadmi Party chief said, "We never said anything about not using cars. We said we will only not use red beacon cars."

Yesterday, the party proved majority in the state Assembly with the help of the Congress and JDU, which means that the question hanging over the fate of the government it has formed is gone for now. The Congress has promised that it will continue to prop the AAP government up and demonstrated that again today by supporting its choice for Speaker. (Read)

Chief Minister Kejriwal, who has so far operated for a week from his residence in suburban Ghaziabad, will now soon move to a 5-bedroom duplex house on Bhagwan Das Road in the heart of Delhi, which is higher than the accomodation alloted to central minsters and MPs. The new accommodation is not as grand as his predecessor Sheila Dikshit's bungalow, but it is not quite the aam Delhi home either.

And he will have two of those, he shared today. "There are two flats, with 5 bedrooms each. We will be staying in only one. The other will be the office. I can work early morning and late night there," Mr Kejriwal said.

 

[temujin]

We never said, we wont use govt. cars. We will infact use as much as we can. More true colors of AAPCong comes out..

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought to put the record straight today on what perks he and his six Delhi ministers will be accepting and what they shall eschew.

When the arrival at the state assembly of two of his ministers, Rakhi Birla and Saurabh Bhardwaj, in government cars this morning raised eyebrows, the Aam Aadmi Party chief said, "We never said anything about not using cars. We said we will only not use red beacon cars."

Yesterday, the party proved majority in the state Assembly with the help of the Congress and JDU, which means that the question hanging over the fate of the government it has formed is gone for now. The Congress has promised that it will continue to prop the AAP government up and demonstrated that again today by supporting its choice for Speaker. (Read)

Chief Minister Kejriwal, who has so far operated for a week from his residence in suburban Ghaziabad, will now soon move to a 5-bedroom duplex house on Bhagwan Das Road in the heart of Delhi, which is higher than the accomodation alloted to central minsters and MPs. The new accommodation is not as grand as his predecessor Sheila Dikshit's bungalow, but it is not quite the aam Delhi home either.

And he will have two of those, he shared today. "There are two flats, with 5 bedrooms each. We will be staying in only one. The other will be the office. I can work early morning and late night there," Mr Kejriwal said.

This is very good news!!!! Hopefully being in power will soon turn them from 'Aam' to 'Khaas' and the transition will occur well in advance of the general elections. Swelling of the pseudo secular ranks by the likes of AAP is bound to work in the favour of the BJP as AK is certain to siphon off a significant chunk of the anti incumbency Muslim vote from the Congis.

 

[Indischer]

@ Indisher, From a left libertarian perspective, anything at perpetuates power heirarchy and state control has the potential to corrupt, restrict individual freedoms and promote oppression but there is poor fit between the two systems at the practical level as well.

Since they entailed voluntary participation by members of the public, such forums quickly became dominated by advocacy groups leading to several sections of the population, for instance OAPs and youth, becoming excluded from them.

Based on AK's comments on his MLA Binny's 'Jan Sabhaas', his own vision involves jan sabhaas that have sweeping powers in relation to local budgets, law and order etc, with elected representatives being relegated to mere administrative roles and liable to recall by their constituents. From a logistical point of view, such a system is easier to implement in densly populated urban areas (hence AAP's focus on Delhi) but is only likely to meet with limited success as long as the state retains its prerogative over taxation, fiscal policy and can over ride decisions made by community councils. In other words, AAP's plan is fundamentally incompatible with parlimentary democracy and requires the abolition of all central authority in the long term to work in practice.

In the short term, the objective is therefore to create a network of community councils spread across cities and eventually the whole country and beyond, which would employ collective activism to create a 'counterweight' to the state authority and gradually divest it of its powers. When referring to replacing the 'state', the likes of AK are clear that they do not mean the state in an institutional sense but the nation-state as a physical entity.

Also note the distinction Bookchinists make between 'politics' and 'statecraft', their readiness to participate in the electoral process, join forces with elements that would get them into positions of power from where they can unleash their anti state agenda. This perfectly explains AAP's keeness to get in bed with the Congress and their populist policies in government.

AK himself has stated openly that he sees India as a '100 Switzerlands' (see response to Javed Akthar in OP). This guy should be tried for high treason but instead is being lauded by the paid media as the messiah who will deliver the nation from corruption.

Since common sense is in such short supply among the average McDonalds munching AAP supporter who regards protest as a fashion accessory, one can only hope for the sake of the nation that the rigours of electoral politics and trappings of power would in time persuade AAP to shed some of its subversive ideology and truly embrace the leftist, pseudosecular mainstream.

I feel you've jumped the gun on many occasions here. AAP's model is perfectly compatible with Parliamentary Democracy. It's not an entirely new/radical power-devolution system that he has pioneered, but rather a working model visible across many Democracies.

That he is suggesting that Civic bodies at the village and Zilla level be given greater responsibility to manage their infrastructure better is not a bad thing. Example: Didn't Dallas file for bankruptcy recently? The city is responsible for it's own taxation for it's own upkeep. How will this affect US foreign policy in any way? Compare this with our own City Municipal Councils who show losses every year, receive funds from the State, and have only crumbling infrastructure to show for their spending.

His free water and electricity scheme is projected to cost around 350 crore. How much has corruption cost the State Exchequer of Delhi so far? The 24 cases related to the Commonwealth Games pending in courts or undergoing arbitration alone cost about Rs 350 crore!

And how is seeing India as 100 Switzerlands a case for high treason?? He was merely extrapolating the size of Switzerland if it's democratic model were to be applied in India. Please don't take statements out of context and spread further confusion. I've listened to mainstream leaders make direct seditious remarks and slanderous accusations and get away scott-free.

 

[kurup]

Every single day passes , the AAP gets exposed big time .

It looks like becoming the B-Team of Congress .

 

[temujin]

I feel you've jumped the gun on many occasions here. AAP's model is perfectly compatible with Parliamentary Democracy. It's not an entirely new/radical power-devolution system that he has pioneered, but rather a working model visible across many Democracies.

That he is suggesting that Civic bodies at the village and Zilla level be given greater responsibility to manage their infrastructure better is not a bad thing. Example: Didn't Dallas file for bankruptcy recently? The city is responsible for it's own taxation for it's own upkeep. How will this affect US foreign policy in any way? Compare this with our own City Municipal Councils who show losses every year, receive funds from the State, and have only crumbling infrastructure to show for their spending.

His free water and electricity scheme is projected to cost around 350 crore. How much has corruption cost the State Exchequer of Delhi so far? The 24 cases related to the Commonwealth Games pending in courts or undergoing arbitration alone cost about Rs 350 crore!

And how is seeing India as 100 Switzerlands a case for high treason?? He was merely extrapolating the size of Switzerland if it's democratic model were to be applied in India. Please don't take statements out of context and spread further confusion. I've listened to mainstream leaders make direct seditious remarks and slanderous accusations and get away scott-free.

@Indischer AK's plan is localism through Mohalla sabhas and not through civic bodies elected by majority mandate. He sees very little role for elected representatives beyond implementing the decisions of these sabhas.You are making the same mistake that stupid anchor in the NDTV debate was making by comparing AK's proposals to Panchayati Raj.

Talking about cities going bankrupt, I believe you are referring to Detroit which was the result of entrenched problems related to the decline of Mo Town, white flight etc. In any case, it is a red herring as US has a system of federal, state and local taxes and the scope of local taxation is very limited in general, similar to council tax in the UK which tops up central grants to cover local policing,schools, rubbish collection etc. More importantly, taxes are levied by an elected council which in turn is accountable to elected bodies that exist in a chain of command that leads all the way to the top of the legislative/judiciary system.

What AK is proposing is very different to the above on several counts.Direct democracy as advocated by him is incompatible with representative democracy since it seeks to strip elected bodies of their legislating, executive and supervisory roles and replace it with unelected 'jan sabhas' (on the basis that 'power corrupts' etc)

With his Switzerland remarks, AK is deliberately misleading the audience by suggesting that all decisions in Switzerland are made through referendum. This is utter nonsense and he knows it. By referendum, AK means involving the aam aadmi in every aspect of the government's decision making process (for instance soliciting their views on government formation etc) which is unprecedented in democracy (unless you go back to ancient Athens of course)

As for my comment on AAP and the Indian state, this is what Murray Bookchin had to say on the matter

It confuses the arguments of advocates for decentralization to make institutional decentralization congruent with the physical breakup of such a large entity. There is a certain treachery on the part of centralists in making these two very distinct lines of development identical or entangling them with each other. Libertarian municipalists must always keep the distinction between institutional and physi- cal
decentralization clearly in mind, and recognize that the former is entirely achievable even while the latter may take years to attain.

Murray Bookchin, Meaning of Confederalism,Green Perspectives, 1990

 

[Star Wars]

Hypocrite

 

[KRAIT]

Instead of tick it is now....well you can guess....

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Aaam aaadmi ministers take 22Lakhs premium innova MUVs...

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party Ministers of Delhi were today given Toyota Innova cars as official perks.

A number of ministers, including Manish Sisodia, Rakhi Birla and Saurabh Bhardwaj, came to Delhi Assembly complex in official cars.

Asked if coming by such cars was reflective of practising austerity, Kejriwal downplayed it saying the party never said it's ministers will not use official cars.

"We never said anything about not using cars. We said we will not use red beacon cars," Kejriwal said in reply to a volley of questions by reporters.

The acceptance of official cars by the ministers came a day after the AAP government won a trust vote in the assembly with Congress support and alliance.

Asked about the issue, Sisodia said the party was not opposed and there was nothing wrong in taking official cars.

"We are opposed to the VIP culture of ministers and bureaucrats using red and blue beacons on their cars and not against using government cars.

Asked whether Kejriwal will also accept a government car, Sisodia refused to answer.