AAP boosts campaign by directly attacking Modi and Sonia

The Aam Aadmi Party today boosted their campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by adding the names of Sonia Gandhi and Narendra Modi to their list of corrupt politicians of the country.

The party leaders in Delhi have claimed that a politician like Narendra Modi, who has always promoted and practiced politics of hatred, deserves to be on that list. As for Congress president Sonia Gandhi, AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said the reason behind adding her name is that she was leading a Congress party which has been riddled with corruption during the ten years it has been in power.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi. PTI

"The list of corrupt politicians that was published yesterday is a dynamic list and we will keep adding names to it," said AAP leader Gopal Rai, who is in charge of the national membership drive.

The Aam Aadmi Party has also said that it will field their strongest possible candidates against all the heavyweight politicians it named in its list.

"Our main agenda for the next Lok Sabha election is to rid the country of corrupt, criminal, and dynast politicians and we will put up the strongest possible candidates, be it against Narendra Modi in Gujarat or Sonia Gandhi," said Gopal Rai.

The party has not only attacked the Congress supremo and the BJP prime ministerial candidate, but also slammed Andhra politician Jagan Mohan Reddy. "There is wave of popular support for Reddy in the state but that does not mean that he is not corrupt. The ongoing cases on his assets prove that," Yadav said.

While launching a verbal attack on one of the most popular Andhra leaders, the one-year-old party has made its stand clear on the Telangana issue. "Aam Aadmi Party has always been in favour of small states. We completely support the demand of a separate Telangana. But at the same time we have to carefully look into the demand of the people from Seemandhra and rest of Andhra Pradesh," Yadav said.

Yadav, who has lately been facing the heat for his comment on the Khap Panchayat, has claimed that his comment on the issue was completely twisted by the media.

"I have never said I support the atrocities of the Khap but that social bodies like Khap or any tribal court that are not unconstitutional have the right to exist and we acknowledge their existence. But the atrocities like coercion and murder branded as honour killing has to be condemned. We don't support any violation of the law of the land," he said while addressing the media.