Social battles

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appears unfazed in public even as a bitter feud rages within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). So, when he appeared at the annual meeting of an industry body this week and the media urged him to speak on the issue, a reluctant Kejriwal said, "If anyone wants instant publicity, all he has to do is write a blog against me." That was an obvious dig at disgruntled AAP leaders who had vented their ire against him on social media - be it friend-turned-foe Yogendra Yadav's posts, former AAP leader Mayank Gandhi's tell-all blog or former leader of the party's Rajasthan unit Rakesh Parikh's allegation that AAP had become synonymous with Kejriwal.