Without ideology or loyalty: Arvind Kejriwal and his pursuit of power

Rajendra Pal Gautam, Tahir Hussain and Amanatullah Khan have joined a long list of colleagues who have been left high and dry by Kejriwal. They were, in the end, mere props in his pursuit of power

Aam Adami Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal traded in Mahatma Gandhi's pictures in his office for those of Bhimrao Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh to appeal to the voters of Punjab. So, his reaction to a recent Buddhist conversion event was nothing short of astounding.

He forced his cabinet colleague in the Delhi government, Rajendra Pal Gautam, to resign after publicly converting to Buddhism in Ambedkar's footsteps, along with 1,000 Hindus on October 5. The problem was that in repeating the 22 vows of conversion framed by Ambedkar, the converted neo-Buddhists promised to distance themselves from Hindu gods, goddesses, beliefs and