Chenani, Dec 24: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday strongly condemned the “politics of caste, religion and hatred being played by certain political parties with the sole objective of capturing power”.
In a statement, Chairman AAP J&K State Coordination Committee and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said, “The saner elements in society needed to expose such divisive forces who were posing a big threat to our composite culture for achieving their vested political interests. It was painful to see the political discourse sinking abysmally and moving away from the unifying narrative of founding fathers of the constitution to abject levels of distrust, hatred and bigotry.”
Addressing a public meeting in village Bali of Chenani constituency, Harsh Dev Singh said the recent trends of dividing the electorates on the basis of caste, color and creed for political motives could lead to a dangerous denouncement and needed to be curbed by joint efforts of civil society as well as the public authorities including the ECI. “The people need to realize that the politics of division was being resorted to by the political parties who had failed to deliver and were hence using diversionary tactics to regain their lost ground by taking recourse to religion,” he said.
The AAP leader accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and various other parties of having relegated the economic issues including jobs, price rise unemployment, etc to the background and “playing religious card to reap the crops of enmity”.
He said AAP is “against the divisive politics of these traditional parties” and is endeavoring to bring the people of all hues and colors on one platform so as to ensure peace, progress and prosperity of one and all.
Maintaining that AAP gave precedence to economic reforms over politics of convenience, Singh said the party swayed the masses across the nation with its “people-friendly” initiatives in Delhi and Punjab.
