Mahabharat's Bheem Praveen Kumar joins AAP

On 8th September(2013)  Praveen Kumar who famously portrayed the character of Bheem in B R Chopra's TV series Mahabharat joined AAM ADMI PARTY. Praveen Kumar is also a two times Asian games gold medalist.At the public meeting held in Sonia Vihar, where Praveen was inducted into the party, nearly every single speech had references to the Mahabharata.
"It is a role that I have a great fondness for. It gave me fame. If the Mahabharata taught me anything, it was that leaders must serve their people. This is what the Aam Aadmi Party stands for, and which is why I have joined it," Praveen said.

According to internal party sources Praveen was being considered as the party's candidate for the Wazirpur constituency.
"He has filed an application with the party for the candidate's post. It is likely that he will be declared the candidate, as he lives in the area, and has clean credentials," a member said.


Source:http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bheem-joins-aap-ranks-ahead-of-november-battle/1166526/2

AAP volunteer beaten up for protecting a girl form being molested

On the evening of Rakhi, an AAP volunteer Sunder saw a drunk man trying to force himself into an auto in which a girl was traveling.The girl was trying to resist this act. 
The volunteer and his brother tried to help the girl and interfered but were beaten up by the drunk man and three of his friends. Sunder suffered minor injuries with some bruises and a red eye. He was punched on the face repeatedly by those men.However, later men ran away after the scuffle and the girl went safely to her home.

What Sunder did is really appreciable, if he would not have interfered it would have been another Damani case on the night of Rakha Bandhan...Keep it up!
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=401555429944223&set=a.300369023396198.53817.290805814352519&type=1&relevant_count=1

AAP's Candidate selection procedure: A thing you must know

1. 100 voters of any assembly constituency can come together and propose the name of a person they wish to be the candidate for their constituency. Also, a prospective candidate himself, with the approval of the 100 voters from his constituency, may propose his name. A particular voter may propose the name of a single candidate only.

2. Application forms can be downloaded online or can be obtained from any of our party offices.

3. After filling in all details asked for in the application form, one can deposit it at the party head quarters with Mr. Dilip Pandey, Secretary, Selection Committee (Address: A -119, Kaushambi, Ghaziabad). This can be done on any day after the 15th of April 2013, between 10am and 5pm (except for Sundays). Any correspondence regarding the candidate selection process will happend from this same office.

4. A screening committee has been created by the party to work on this process. Members of this screening committee are -

1. Manish Sisodia

2. Sanjay Singh

3. Vinod Kumar Binny

4. Rajan Prakash

5. Dilip K Pandey

6. Nisha Singh

7. Ashish Talwar

8. Kishore Asthana

9. BS Dhanola

10. Rahul Mehra

11. Abhay Singh

12. Vinay Mittal

5. After the 5th of May, the screening committee will start the process of putting together a short list of a maximum of 5 candidates from eacy constituency, from among all the applications received. For the purpose of creating such a short list, the screening committee will have one-on-one interactions with all the applicants and will also take inputs from various sources such as - active volunteers, journalists, reputated citizens and more. The decision of the screening committee will be final in shortlisting candidates. Ater releasing a shortlist, candidate applications will not be received for that particular constituency.

6. The above shortlist will be promoted in the public domain by various means such as - releasing it online, campaign by party workers and other media, and opinion on the candidates will be sought from active party volunteers and the public at large. Everybody will be allowed to share their views, good or bad, about any candidate, and would also be invited to submit proof of any wrong-doings by the shortlisted candidates. Such submissions can be made online or sent directly to the party office. There would be a window of 15 days set apart for this.

7. The screening committee will take congnisance of every information/opinion that is shared, and on receiving evidence-backed negative information about a candidate, strike out the name of such candidates and release an updated shortlist.

8. Aam Aadmi Party is a recently formed political outfit. There are many people who have now participated and contributed for a long time as volunteers in this movement, but have not been formally enrolled as party members. All such volunteers will be indentified/declared as 'active volunteers' and their opinion will be sought on the shortlist of candidates.

Post this, such 'active volunteers' would gather together at constituency level meetings and would rank the candidates by means of preferential voting. This process would be carried out by a secret ballot, the results of which would be made available to the political affairs committee. At the moment, the number of active volunteers at each constituency is not significantly large. For this reason, we do not plan to release the outcome of the preferential ranking vote and rather only submit it to the political affairs committee as an input.

9. Next, the political affairs committee will have one-on-one interaction with each of the shortlisted candidates.

10. Preferential voting by active volunteers will bring forward the popularity of candidates. While personal interaction with the screening and political committee will be used to determine if the candidate is - courageous, has a vision for bringing in systemic change in Delhi, understands all aspects and nuances of direct democracy (swaraj), has learned opinions on broad range of issues, has respect for every caste and religion etc. Considering the popularity of all candidates, their thoughts on various issues and opinion held by the public at large about them - the political affairs committee will take the decision on who would be the candidate from a particular constituency.

Editor's View: When compared to other present political parties like BJP,Congress etc who do their Candidate Selection in closed shady environments on the basis of money and GUNDA power, AAP's selection procedure is much more democratic and transparent.In fact it is presently the most ideal political selection procedure and is another reason for which voting AAP this time can be considered to be a good deal...
  

Source:http://delhi.aamaadmiparty.org/news/candidate-selection-process-delhi-elections-2013-english-version

Aam Aadmi Party announces list of 13 probables for three assembly seats

To See complete shortlists and candidate lists click here

For earlier shortlists click here
AAP announced the list of 13 probables for Kalkaji, Kirari and Tughlakabad assembly constituencies, after screening the 36 applicants.For Kalkaji assembly seat, AAP has shortlisted five probables, which include Bhag Singh(an auto-rickshaw driver),Gaurav Katiyar( a chartered accountant), a Pradeep Panchal(French language expert), an MNC official and a businessman.

 For Kirari Assembly Seat Rajkumar Sahni(another auto Rikshaw driver) and Rajan Prakash (a journalist with 10 years experience)
Rajan had covered Anna Hazare's agitation but later joined the movement full time and quit his job, the party said.The other two shortlisted candidates are Ramesh Chandra Pradhan and Shivakant, who were associated with CPI(M) while Rakesh Kumar Pandey was associated with Lok Janshakti Party.The party has shortlisted three probable candidates for Tughlakabad Assembly constituency.

Source:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1878455/report-aam-aadmi-party-announces-list-of-13-probables-for-three-assembly-seats

AAP's 3rd shortlist of candidates for Delhi:Detail and Name

Background: Aam Admi Party(AAP) for its participation in Delhi polls in November this year(2013), has earlier shortlisted 44 people from the 95 applicants for 8 Assembly Constituencies(Vidhan Sabha) (viz Ballimaran, Delhi Cantt, Hari Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Mangolpuri, Narela, Sangam Vihar and Timarpur). (Click here for earlier list)

Main Report
Click here for fourth shortlist

Aam Admi Party(AAP) has now made public its 3rd list of shortlisted candidates for Delhi Elections.This list consists of 18 candidates for 8 constituencies.

• This list includes people from all walks of life 
• Out of the 18 shortlisted candidates, 8 are women from different walks of life.
• The average age of the candidates who have been shortlisted is approximately 36 years. 

Some of the shortlisted people are

• Farhana Anjum from Ballimaran. Forty-year old Farhana Anjum had contested 2012 councillor elections and had managed to get more than 5000 votes from her ward, giving a tough fight to the lead candidate.
•  Anita Singh from Sangam Vihar is the wife of a retired IAF officer and has devoted her life to social work and causes related to women.
• Another young female candidate from Mangolpuri is Rakhee Birla who belongs to Balmiki community and is pursuing a career in TV journalism.
• Surendra Singh, an NSG commando who fought terrorists in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks thus saving hundreds of life.
• Also among the candidate shortlist is Jagdeep Singh, who ever since he lost his father in 1984 sikh riots, has been fighting for the rights of the victims of the carnage. 
• Another candidate from Karawal Nagar is Kapil Mishra who is an environment activist with Greenpeace and has been fighting to save Yamina river
• Thirty-four year old Mohammad Salim is an auto driver and has been shortlisted from Timarpur vidhan sabha. 
• Another candidate from Narela is Rajesh Kumari who is a LIC and PO agent.
• The youngest candidate is Wasim Ahmad Sonawale from Ballimaran constituency who is 25 years.
• The oldest is Baljeet Singh Mann from Narela Vidhan Sabha who is 60 years old.His father was in the Azad Hind Fauj, led by Subash Chandra Bose.

Source:http://delhi.aamaadmiparty.org/Delhi-Elections-2013

AAP's candidate selection for Delhi:Complete Report

Aam Admi Party(AAP) for its participation in Delhi polls in November this year(2013), has shortlisted 44 people from the 95 applicants for 8 Assembly Constituencies(VIDHAN SABHA) (viz Ballimaran, Delhi Cantt, Hari Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Mangolpuri, Narela, Sangam Vihar and Timarpur).

• The list ideally includes people from all paths of life. It has got teachers, lawyers, ex-servicemen, engineers, students,  property dealer, farmer and doctors as well.

• These people were selected by the candidate screening committee, co-chaired by Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh.

• The final 8 candidates for the 8 constituencies each would be selected from these 44 by the recommendations of grassroot-level workers and the selection committee through consultation and debate.
• The list includes five each for Greater Kailash and Trilokpuri; four each for Kondli, Najafgarh, Patparganj and Seemapuri while three each for Bijwasan, Malviya Nagar, Matia Mahal, Matiala, Rama Krishna Puram and Sadar Bazar.
• Prominent among the shortlisted are media personality and AAP member Shazia Ilmi from RK Puram and Sisodia himself from Patparganj.
• List was made public on May 24th and was open to suggestions on AAP's website for 15 days 

• According to AAP shortlisting of canditates was done by verifying their criminal antecedents  and considering their clean image and popularity among local people.
• Accusing other parties of having candidates with criminal record , AAP revealed that the Congress and the BJP had fielded 19 candidates each with criminal cases in the last assembly elections while BSP had 15 such candidates.

On the funds collected to contest the elections, Arvind said, "We have received around Rs 2 crore in the past two months through internet banking and anybody can visit out site to see the list of donors. We don't accept any amount from those who want to remain anonymous."

Source:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-25/delhi/39520434_1_arvind-kejriwal-aap-aam-aadmi-party

Arvind gets Delhi citizenship for Elections

Arvind Kejrival has turned to a Delhiite (citizen of Delhi) by getting his voter identity card prepared in the Capital. He Surrendered  his old voter ID having the address of Kaushambi (UP) and got a new one having the F Block, Sundar Nagri in East Delhi as his new address.
Interestingly this new address is in-fact the address of the venue where Arvind's agitation against inflated power and water bills occurred in March (click here to know more about agitation)

Arvind has done this to be able to fight Assembly Elections in Delhi to be held in November this year(2013) because only a person whose name figures in the voters’ list in Delhi can fight the Assembly Elections.

Arvind is in-fact the only shortlisted candidate of AAP from the New Delhi assembly constituency. According to party sources, one candidate who earlier applied to contest from the same constituency withdrew after Mr. Kejriwal expressed his desire to contest from this area.

As per the details the AAP has uploaded on its website, Mr. Kejriwal also declared a flat worth Rs. 1 crore in Gurgaon and Rs. 1 lakh as bank balance on his wife’s name.

Source:http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/kejriwal-becomes-a-delhiite-to-take-on-sheila/article4799475.ece