Aam Aadmi Party seems to be collecting all sorts of people you’d respect but not expect to see in politics. A fascinating mix of the best of the aam aadmi seems to be waiting to shine their influence on governance of a country they have done proud in other ways and people who have suffered odds against their interest now finding haven and of course many like us, with no specific problems but a lot of resentment against a politics that has treated us as little more than a vote cow.
Collecting here announcements of people joining Aam Aadmi Party that I found interesting.
CEO of Hero Motors Pawan Munjal and CEO of Sony television Sameer Nair join AAP.
Former chairperson and CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS, India), Meera Sanyal joins AAP.
V Balakrishnan joins Aam Aadmi Party after stepping down from the board of Infosys.
Grandson of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and son of Congress leader Anil Shastri left his job as the sales head in Apple Inc to join the AAP.
Retired Navy Officer Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj, former VP, IT & Telecommunications at Mahindra have joined #AAP in Himachal Pradesh.
Retired Army Col. Rajendra Singh joins AAP Bangalore.
Lt Gen H S Panag has joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
Music runs through the soul of India, where people know thousands of songs without even realizing they learned them somewhere. When artists and musicians join a political movement (as opposed to paid or quid pro quo performances), I think it is a good sign. It symbolizes that the movement has space for sensitivity.
Vishal Dadlani performed live for AAP’s concert in Delhi.
Kailash Kher composed an anthem for Aam Aadmi Party.
Remo Fernandes joined Aam Aadmi Party.
Mallika Sarabhai, noted dancer who pissed off the Gujarat government (and got cases framed against her in turn) joins Aam Aadmi Party.
Medha Patkar, activist joined AAP.
Capt. Gopinath (Remember Air Deccan?) joins Aam Aadmi Party.
Prominent Indian TV journalist Ashutosh, ex-managing editor of IBN7 has officially joined AAP.
“Flying Sikh” Milkha Singh’s wife and daughter (based in US) have joined Aam Aadmi Party, though the legend himself wishes to keep distance from politics.
Obviously, there are plenty I missed, and if you comment, I’ll add them in.
It’s like….”I like biryani, pulao/polo, paella…”, but packaged together. 😉
Author K P Singh who wrote the @RaisinaSeries trilogy joined AAP.
The moment i saw the thumbnail of milkha singh, on this story, i thought “wow great strategy”, this is going to get them a huge boost, when heroes and other popular but as-yet non-political “good people” start joining AAP and every day from now till election day a new person joins AAP. Good for them. So they are doing good by giving jhatkas to BJ Party and CONgress Party in 2014 before Pirate Party India comes into the picture in the next 5 year election. 🙂