Kejriwal has let down farmers: Vidarbha activist

Kishore Tiwari says that the focus of the revelations left out the farmers and has focused attention on a single person and a single issue

After lawyer activist Y P SIngh's allegation that Arvind Kejriwal suppressed information that hurt the NCP and Sharad Pawar while targeting BJP national president Nitin Gadkari, now it is the turn of Kishore Tiwari the activist from Vidarbha to feel aggrieved and betrayed by team Kejriwal.

Tiwari who has been running the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti and taking up the issue of farmers suicides in the region says that the focus of the revelations left out the farmers and has focused attention on a single person and a single issue.

The revelations give the wrong impression that the corruption is the main cause of farmers distress. He is most upset at corruption and irrigation scams diverting all attention from the issues facing ordinary farmers in Vidarbha, which he wanted the activists to highlight.  ''We were asked to provide all details related to the irrigation scam  and the recently developed power project crisis ...these were given to the IAC. But all data given by us was intentionally not used... but it resulted in  single person  focus agenda where our main issues have taken a back seat...''

“We demand IAC to focus on main demands of Aam Aadmi who are  living in remote villages and are dying without food and medicine; he says

"The basic need is to change the wrong model of development and  perfect Indian economic policy  and fix a time agenda to deal with  corrupt leaders, babus, judges, member civil society and media...That is the need now. We will convince these great  leaders that’s the main issue...Tiwari says in a letter, implying that he is not about to abandon the IAC..

Tiwari says he was willing to help Kejriwal with more information if he would only take up the issues related to the common man rather than chase after big politicians, implying that they dont have anything to do with their daily woes.

Tiwari had joined the new political party started by Kejriwal a fortnight ago in Delhi but was nowhere on the scene when the revelations on Vidarbha were being made by Kejriwal alongwith an RTI activist AnjaliDamania.

Damania is now under scrutiny within the IAC for allegedly acquiring farm land for developing real estate property.