Social activist Anna Hazare said on 19 January that he is not in contact with Arvind Kejriwal anymore.
Speaking to reporters on the day the EC recommended the disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs, the former mentor of the Delhi Chief Minister said that their paths separated the day Kejriwal formed AAP.
He said that he had advised Kejriwal not to form a party.
“Nation can’t be served by forming a party. Had that been the case, the scenario would have been different in 70 years of independence,” the octogenarian Hazare said.
This is not the first time that Hazare has spoken against Arvind Kejriwal and AAP.
On 16 January, he had said that he’ll make sure that no politician ever emerges out of his anti-corruption movement any longer. In December 2017 he said, “I hope no Kejriwal comes out of my movement again.”
Kejriwal was part of Hazare’s anti-corruption movement in 2011. They had parted ways in 2012 when Kejriwal launched his own political outfit.
The Delhi High Court today refused to grant an interim relief to the AAP MLAs who have been recommended for disqualification by the EC.
But even if the MLAs are disqualified after the Presidential assent, the party will still be in a majority in 70-member Delhi assembly with 47 lawmakers.