Jha said the key member of now disbanded Team Anna is not a leader but "an activist doing politics of swadeshi with foreign funding".
Taking part in a rally here organised by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha yesterday, he said, "Kejriwal is not fit for politics, where he will be like a fused bulb."
Kejriwal, a Magsaysay Award winner, is more of an "activist who is doing politics of swadeshi with foreign funding", the BJP leader maintained.
The bureaucrat-turned-RTI activist and some other members of the erstwhile Team Anna have decided to form a political party.
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