Your editorial, ‘The dream sours’ (March 31) reflects the sentiments of the people. Arvind Kejriwal has betrayed their trust and aspirations and his manipulations have touched a new low. When he is not able achieve fairness and transparency within his own party, how will he implement them in his government? Instead of muscling his political pathways with conviction and dissent, he has allegedly used muscle power to muffle the legitimate views of others including the founding members. He has forced the people to give up their hopes for newer systems in governance wrapped in justice and ethics.

B Rajasekaran

Bengaluru

The party with a difference is no different from other political outfits this country has seen. The questions raised by Bhushan and Yadav are very valid and the way they were shown the door will clearly disappoint the core supporters of the AAP. What happened to the mohalla sabhas Kejriwal promised. When he can’t hear out his co-founders, what will happen to the voice of the people of Delhi? Killing internal democracy in the party will eventually kill the party.

CR Arun

Email

For all the hype about the AAP being a phenomenon in the Indian political firmament, the party is still a greenfield project consisting of greenhorn politicians, including Kejriwal himself. The AAP is a one-State party and does not count for much beyond Delhi and Punjab. Kejriwal should have sorted out the issues with Bhushan, Yadav and Ramdas before expelling them from the party. The crisis has been a big let down.

TG Venkateswaran

Chennai

What has been portrayed as a battle to maintain the purity of the AAP’s ideals is in reality a power struggle. With a modest victory in the Delhi Assembly polls, the AAP may well have persisted with the old script. But its sweeping majority has given rise to a sharp divide with some feeling the favourable mood of the electorate would help the party in other States.The first move was made by Shanti Bhushan, a founding member, who sought to remove Kejriwal as the national convener. With the CM busy governing ,the talkative quartet led by Yadav then dominated the media. Under the garb of dissent these armchair ideologues have managed to undermine their party much more than its leader.

R Narayanan

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

The decision to expel senior leaders by convening a national executive committee is undemocratic and unbecoming of a good leader. The ideal solution would be to address the issues. The party which gave hope to millions of people with its emphasis on value-based principles has to suffer due to the lack of good governance.

Vikram Sundaramurthy

Chennai

Promises immobilised?

According to reports the latest spectrum auction permit is valid for 20 years subject to various conditions. Carriers will have to pay as much as 33 per cent of their final bid within 10 days of the auction’s conclusion and the rest in a staggered manner in 10 annual instalments starting in 2017. However, TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar has reportedly apprehended a rise in mobile call rates by 8-9 per cent on the premise that telecom companies may weed out freebies.

March 31 was the deadline for rolling out number portability and all-India roaming facilities. However, taking into account the conspicuous silence from TRAI and the government, it seems the promise is likely to remain on paper.

Ettirankandath Krishnadas

Palakkad, Kerala

J&K floods a shame

Floods have returned to haunt the people of Jammu & Kashmir just seven months after unprecedented devastation struck the valley. While the authorities have been working overtime to rescue marooned people and retrieve bodies it is unfortunate that the State has not been able to restore the infrastructure. The systems of drains and drainages in the valley also need to get an urgent face-lift and go through a major declogging process. It is sad that these simple precautions were not done earlier.

NJ Ravi Chander

Bengaluru

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