After the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) officially announced the names of its three nominees for the Rajya Sabha, senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas alleged that he has been punished for speaking the truth. He targeted AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal saying that it is difficult to survive in the AAP if one disagrees with Kejriwal.
Vishwas’ comments came after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday officially declared the nomination of Sanjay Singh, Narayan Das (ND) Gupta and Sushil Gupta as AAP Rajya Sabha nominees. While Singh has been associated with the party since its inception, Sushil Gupta is a Delhi-based businessman and ND Gupta a chartered accountant.
“In the last one and half years, I spoke the truth whether it is Arvind Kejriwal’s decisions or issues like surgical strike, irregularities in ticket distribution, softness towards extremists in Punjab, JNU incident among others, for which I have been rewarded in the form of punishment,” said Vishwas.
Taking potshots at Kejriwal for nominating ND Gupta and Sushil Gupta to the Raya Sabha, Vishwas said that he wanted to congratulate AAP volunteers that their voice has been heard in choosing the “great revolutionaries”.
The AAP leader also charged that around one and half years ago Kejriwal had in a party’s national executive meeting said with a smile, “We will finish you, but we will not let you be a martyr.”
“I want to congratulate (Kejriwal) that I have accepted my martyrdom,” Vishwas said.