New Delhi: Live updates: 3.35 pm: Kejriwal's mentor Anna Hazare assures support to his party candidates saying that they must be good in order to win his backing. "I will not campaign for the party, but will support the right candidates."
3.10 pm: Activist Yogendra Yadav elaborates about the party, "Aam Aadmi Party will have a national coordinator who will be elected... Political Affairs Committee at the national level that is kind of a politburo. The National Executive has 30 seats... today 23 members were chosen. National Council is the broadest body. Party will have a Secretary and Treasurer. Aam Aadmi Party will not have a party president or general secretary. Names in the National Executive: Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Mayank Gandhi, Gopal Rai, Kumar Viswas, Anand Kumar, Manish Sisodia, Subhas Bare and Ajit Jha. Shanti Bhushan is not a member of any body since Prashant is a member of the Executive body. A member cannot be in two bodies. The same structure will be replicated at district and state levels."
2.26 pm: Congress leader Manish Tewari says, "Aam aadmi is synonymous with the Congress Party since 1885. Nobody can hijack the intrinsic relationship between the Congress and the aam aadmi."
1.39 pm: Kejriwal names party as 'Aam Aadmi Party'. The name is proposed by Mayank Gandhi. The core team also adopts party constitution at the meet....
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11:25 AM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will be meeting his new core committee later on Saturday. The two-day meeting will take place at Anna's village - Ralegan Siddhi. It will include Kiran Bedi and former Army Chief General VK Singh. Team Anna may support Arvind Kejriwal's yet-to-be-launched political party when elections come, Kiran Bedi, a member of the new Team Anna, said in Hyderabad on Friday. "We will support any honesty. Since...
06:26 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Team Anna may support Arvind Kejriwal's yet-to-be-launched political party when elections come, Kiran Bedi, a member of the new Team Anna, said in Hyderabad on Friday. "We will support any honesty. Since he (Kejriwal) stands for promoting integrity, obviously he will be eligible for our support," she told reporters on the sidelines of the Indian School of Business (ISB) Leadership Summit-2013. She said that Team Anna has no differences...
05:00 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Is Anna Hazare's new rented office in New Delhi based in the house of a Congress worker? The residents welfare association (RWA) of south Delhi's Sarvodaya Enclave, where Hazare has taken up a room at a monthly rent of Rs 50,000, alleged on Sunday that the property belonged to a Congress worker. Team Anna, however, dismissed the allegation as illogical. Soon after Hazare inaugurated the office at house...
07:37 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Anti-corruption activist Kiran Bedi on Saturday said that IAC was a movement and no one could lay claim to it. "IAC is a movement. If someone, anyone decides to break away and make a political party obviously they'll have a new name," she said while responding to a query. ...
08:37 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Launching his new team, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Saturday gave a call for Jan Andolan. "Our goal is not Jan Lokpal alone. There has to be a Jan Andolan, a mass movement. We will try and bring together many people's movements," said activist Medha Patkar, who along with Kiran Bedi, shared the stage with Anna. Reading out from a list, Kiran Bedi said that Akhil Gogoi, Akshay...
04:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare is likely to announce a coordination panel by Saturday to take his apolitical anti-corruption movement forward. The anti-corruption crusader, who arrived in New Delhi on Monday afternoon, said he would hold a series of discussions with his associates in the next two days and visit a couple of places which have been shortlisted to house the movement's office in the national capital. The anti-graft crusader said...
06:41 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday continued to face sharp attack from the Congress through party general secretary Digvijaya Singh. And this even as his former mentor and associate in the fight against graft, Anna Hazare, offered a word of advice for the India Against Corruption (IAC) member asking him to take up his fight against the corrupts one by one. A day after Digvijaya Singh described Kejriwal...
10:09 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will meet his new Core Committee in Ralegan Siddhi for two days from November 24 and has invited several eminent persons like former Army chief Gen VK Singh, activist Kiran Bedi said on Saturday. The new Core Committee will meet for the first time just as Arvind Kejriwal, who split with Anna Hazare on the question of going political, is set to announce the name of...
09:42 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has seized upon the opportunity of the widening rift between anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal. Anna Hazare in his blog accused Kejriwal of splitting the anti-corruption movement. The Congress has now said that Anna was used for political ambitions. "Now it is clear to everyone that Anna wanted to run campaign for Lokpal but Arvind Kejriwal and others used him for making political party....
01:35 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Sagar: Taking potshots at anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, Madhya Pradesh BJP chief Prabhat Jha has said he will be like a "fused bulb" in politics. Jha said the key member of now disbanded Team Anna is not a leader but "an activist doing politics of swadeshi with foreign funding". Taking part in a rally here organised by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha yesterday, he said, "Kejriwal is not fit for politics,...
01:06 AM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hoped that Anna Hazare would support him in his endeavour to form a political party, saying that there could be ideological differences on the issue but the goal is same. He said that his group would announce the future roadmap of the political party on October 2. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Kejriwal also made it clear that he would not support...
04:45 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: A former Team Anna member has demanded answers from Arvind Kejriwal on the use of India Against Corruption (IAC) funds. He says Anna Hazare had returned a cheque for Rs 2 crore that Kejriwal had sent to him. He has also questioned the source of funds of Suresh Pathare, who was asked to quit as Anna aide on Saturday. "Arvind Kejriwal sent a cheque of Rs 2 crore...
04:30 PM, Sep 23, 2012
His resignation comes at a time when Anna Hazare has officially parted ways with Arvind Kejriwal. ...
01:40 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Dehradun: Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday refuted allegations that he was behind the split between Gandhian Anna Hazare and his associates. "Those saying that I caused a split between Hazare and his associates are spreading a canard and indulging in petty politics. I had no role to play in this," Ramdev told a press conference at Patnajali Yogpeeth in Haridwar. He said he will spell out the nature of his...
10:37 PM, Sep 22, 2012
The rift between Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal seems to be finally out in the open. ...
11:57 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Questioning the need for the anti-corruption movement turning political, activist Kiran Bedi on Thursday alleged that Arvind Kejriwal has changed his stand on the question of the movement's character and not Anna Hazare. She said Hazare can unite all movements across the country and put pressure on political parties on the issue of corruption and bringing of a strong Lokpal bill. "What is the compulsion to float a...
08:18 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Kiran Bedi said while Arvind Kejriwal would go the political way, she will support Anna Hazare's movement. ...
11:51 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal has expressed shock over anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's decision to part ways with him. "We all have a lot of respect for Anna ji. He is like a father figure and guru to me. His decision was very shocking, sad and unexpected," Kejriwal said. Speaking on his future course of action, Kejriwal said, "Volunteers have arrived from across the nation. We will now meet with them...
11:31 AM, Sep 20, 2012
While Anna said he wished Kejriwal the best, he also forbade him from using his images during campaigning. ...
09:44 AM, Sep 20, 2012
