AAP executive meet: Points to note

Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:24 [IST]

New Delhi, Jan 31: Here are the higlights of the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's speech on the second day of the Aam Aadmi Party's national executive meeting. The meet was attended by close to 400 AAP members from across India. (See pics below the article)

Kejriwal said:

• We have to discuss why we started this party? It started on April 4, 2011, when we sat with Anna Hazare at Jantar Mantar for the Jan Lokpal Bill.

• Winning or losing elections isn't the indicator of living upto the people's expectations.

• We are trying to live up to the people's expectations in Delhi.

•This is an experiment of the people - the people of Delhi have entrusted us.

• The Lokpal Bill that the government has passed can't even kill a mouse, let alone end corruption.

• Parliament must be cleansed, the people of this country must go in. Aam Aadmi should go in and talk about his interests, and that is why we formed the party.

• When we go from here, the Delhi Cabinet will meet and we will discuss the Delhi Janlokpal Bill. We don't have a majority in the Vidhan Sabha so we don't know what the Congress and BJP will do.

• I have received reports that people are not taking bribes in the state government now.

•We did more in one month than they did in 15 years.

• We ordered the audit of Delhi power companies, something they could not do in 5 years.

• BJP was in power for five years and they just put up demands.

•The country has tough problems, but they can all be solved.

• We have money in the government. There is a lot of money and it needs to be used by an honest government.

•We have not come to play politics, we have come to remove corruption.

• Our aim should be that not a single corrupt person exists in the parliament.

• We need to change all this. We have not come to fight in the elections. The people of the country will fight this election.

• We are providing an option to the people of the country and the country has to work to make sure that not one corrupt person is elected to the parliament.

• Let us make a list of corrupt people.

• Arvind Kejriwal is not important. We have come to give everything we have for this country and not to play politics.

• This is the list that we have compiled: Nitin Gadkari, Veerappa Moily, HD Kumaraswamy, Chidambaram, Alagiri, GK Vassan, Salman Khurshid, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Anu Tandon, Jagan Mohan Reddy, Kapil Sibal, Kamal Nath, Farooq Abdullah, A Raja.

• We're not here in politics for power. The people who spend Rs. 500 crore on branding can't give this country an honest government

• We must work towards ending dynasty politics in the country.

• Let us get together to make sure that not one corrupt person wins a seat this year.

• I have hope that this country will definitely change.