Kapil Mishra plans another anti-AAP front

New Delhi: Rebel Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kapil Mishra, on Monday, claimed that a number of anti-graft activists, who formerly worked with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, have sided with him.

The former volunteers of the anti-corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare will approach AAP MLAs with “evidence” against the party’s top leadership. Mr Mishra said that he will revive the India Against Corruption (IAC) campaign, which once had the likes of Mr Hazare and Mr Kejriwal. The IAC team will be constituted in all the 70 Assembly constituencies of Delhi, he added.

“Former anti-corruption volunteers are joining hands with us along with the Aam Aadmi Sena, a splinter group of AAP,” Mr Mishra said.

He has been attacking the AAP leadership ever since he was ousted from Mr Kejriwal’s city Cabinet last month.

“They will go across the city and expose AAP. For example, several donations exceeding Rs 10 lakh, which is supposed to be scrutinised by the political affairs committee (PAC), have been concealed by the party from the concerned authorities like the Income Tax,” Mr Mishra told reporters.

AAP dismissed the fresh set of charges pertaining to alleged bungling in its funding as a “comedy show.”

“This is like a daily comedy show. It is good entertainment for media,” AAP spokesperson Ashutosh said.

 In his press conference on Monday, Mr Mishra also repeated allegations of irregularities in AAP’s funding and claimed that the party has received money from shell companies and from donors with “fake PAN numbers.”

Till date, no government agency has slapped any such charge against AAP. However, it is under the scanner of the Income Tax department for “falsification” of its account books.

The party has recently appointed Deepak Bajpai as its new treasurer after Raghav Chadha, who was holding the post, expressed his desire to step down to focus on litigations.