"A hundred years ago, Britishers had called Bhagat Singh a terrorist and 100 years later, history is repeating when all these parties want to prove Bhagat Singh's follower (Kejriwal) as a terrorist, but people know the reality," he said.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas on Friday called on senior party leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav to leave the party 'gracefully' if nothing was working out.
Amid claims of Kumar Vishwas trying to separate the AAP, Kejriwal issued a tweet saying that the former was like his brother.
While AAP blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party, the saffron party has rejected the allegations against them and said they have nothing to do with such banners.
Bharti further said that this is high time the party took things seriously.
The Congress on Thursday downplayed a survey which projected major gains for the Aam Admi Party in big metropolises pushing Rahul Gandhi to third position as prime ministerial choice after Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, saying it will comment on its strategy at an appropriate time.
'There are no women in the Delhi government and it shows how much the government is concerned about women's issues,' says DCW chairperson Barkha Singh.
Vishwas, who is the party's Rajasthan in-charge, held a meeting of nearly 600 volunteers at the AAP office sitting on the ground.
The DCW issued two summons to the AAP leader, but both have gone unanswered.
Bharatiya Janata Party's Varun Gandhi, Aam Aadmi Party candidate in Amethi Kumar Vishwas and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan were among the prominent candidates who filed nominations on the fourth day for the penultimate phase of Lok Sabha election covering 64 seats in seven states.
With actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani entering the fray as a Bhartiya Janata Party candidate in Amethi, a war of words has broken out between her and Aam Aadmi Party contender Kumar Vishwas over his remark that any "Irani or Pakistani" will not make any difference in the constituency.
'The RSS-BJP fight against TMC excesses seem to have been limited to fighting the assembly poll, not coming to the defence of ordinary Bengalis who are being crushed daily by Trinamool goons,' points out Virendra Kapoor.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Smriti Irani on Wednesday filed her nomination from Amethi and attacked her main opponent Rahul Gandhi, saying his own party did not have faith in his abilities to name him the prime ministerial candidate.
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If the Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. The fightback will get more intense, observes Shekhar Gupta.
AAP will have to learn to be patient as such electoral changes do not happen in a hurry, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Sharat Pradhan gets mixed reactions from locals, as the Aam Aadmi Party takes a stride into Amethi, the bastion of the Congress VP.
In a sign of reconciliation between warring factions of the Aam Aadmi Party, senior leaders from the Arvind Kejriwal camp met Yogendra Yadav late Monday night and held discussions over several contentious issues, hours after the Delhi Chief Minister's return from Bengaluru.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
Waving brooms (the Aam Aadmi Party's election symbol) and placards, jubilant supporters of the party on Sunday converged outside its office in large numbers after its impressive performance in the Delhi assembly election.
If their voters haven't spared them, why should we? Kindly take the poll at the last slide and let us know who do you think is the biggest flop of this election.
The Congress vice-president reached Fursatganj air strip in Amethi on Wednesday morning and then made his way to several booths in the area.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday held an impressive roadshow in family pocket borough Amethi as a huge crowd chanted slogans praising the Congress vice-president who has been representing the constituency for the past 10 years.
Anna expressed apprehension that the Centre may pose obstructions as the legislation provides for probing corruption in Delhi, where the central government offices are located.
Kumar Vishwas, an Aam Aadmi Party leader whose name is doing the rounds as the candidate Arvind Kejriwal might field against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha elections, has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party to make it a three-cornered fight by fielding Narendra Modi.
Campaigning for her brother Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday asked the electorate in Amethi not to vote for "outsiders", an apparent reference his rivals Smriti Irani of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party's Kumar Vishwas.
Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan and four other leaders of India Against Corruption on Monday accused the police of harassing their supporters, who participated in the protest on August 26 against coal block allocation. Kejriwal, Bhushan, Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai, Kumar Vishwas and Sanjay Singh went to the Parliament Street police station on Monday morning and met additional commissioner K C Dwivedi.
The Election Commission on Friday recommended President Ram Nath Kovind that the 20 MLAs be disqualified.
For the first time after the split from Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday led around 300 activists in a protest against hike in power tariffs, alleging that the Delhi government and private discoms were out to loot people.
Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday reached out to placate erstwhile Team Anna member Kiran Bedi, who was distancing from them on targetting the Bharatiya Janata Party, an issue which remained unresolved even after the meeting.
After making it clear that he was against the formation of a party, Anna Hazare on Wednesday met activists and experts in New Delhi to discuss the future course of action during which divergent opinions emerged over the movement taking a political course.
All the accused moved their bail pleas before the court which granted the relief to them. Jaitley was also present in the court room.
Team Anna on Monday alleged a conspiracy behind the collapse of the northern power grid, with activists alleging that such developments were taking place in Delhi as Anna Hazare is sitting on an indefinite fast.
After announcing Kumar Vishwas's candidature against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, there is a buzz that the party might pit Shazia Ilmi against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the upcoming general elections.
Those who will campaign in Punjab include former IRS officer Arvind Kejriwal, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Manish Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, Naveen Jaihind and Gopal Das.
Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal will go to Ralegan Siddhi on Thursday to extend support to Anna Hazare, who is on indefinite hunger strike for passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in the Parliament.
Did Anna Hazare abruptly announce the ending of the fast, taking his associates by surprise?
The decision to remove Mishra was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired CM Kejriwal.
Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and Narain Dass Gupta were selected as AAP's Rajya Sabha nominees.
Anna Hazare on Friday hinted at expansion of his Core Committee as a sense of unease gripped his team over allegations of financial misconduct by some of its key members.
Raising concern over the alleged "attempt to mow down" Aam Aadmi Party Delhi chief Dilip Pandey by a city police van, a delegation of party leaders met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the matter and "deteriorating" law and order situation in the capital.
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