Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj has taken a sharp dig at the BJP over the appointment of Nitin Nabin, a leader dependent on external backing and lacking an independent political base on his own, as the party’s new national president.
Drawing attention to a telling visual, senior AAP leader and Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj shared a photograph on social media platform X in which Nitin Nabin is seated on a chair, with PM Narendra Modi standing directly behind him, while Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former BJP national president JP Nadda, and other senior BJP leaders stand on either side.
Commenting on the image, the AAP Delhi Unit Chief said that it represents the real picture of today’s India. He remarked that the decision about who gets to sit on the chair is being made by PM Modi.
On Wednesday, AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj said on X that the BJP was deliberately installing a docile figure in the post. He remarked that the person occupying the chair was nothing more than Prime Minister Modi’s puppet, while positions within the party were being distributed only for namesake authority.
He continued, “All real power is concentrated in the hands of one individual, there is still an orchestrated chorus of self-congratulation, ‘Wah, Modi ji, Wah’.”
On Tuesday as well, Saurabh Bharadwaj had raised questions over the appointment of Nitin Nabin as BJP’s national president. He asked what space remains in “PM Modi’s new BJP” for leaders who have strong personalities and an independent political base of their own.
He said that by calling Nitin Nabin the “boss,” they are reassuring their own ego, implying how difficult it would have been for them to call leaders like Sanjay Joshi or Nitin Gadkari their boss.
The AAP Delhi Unit Chief had said, “Since becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has not allowed any strong personality to occupy any important position.” He stated that the new national president’s political standing was so weak that he would not even be counted among the country’s 10,000 most important leaders.
Saurabh Bharadwaj had stated, “PM Modi appointed chief ministers within the BJP who had no independent political base of their own and who would appear insignificant in comparison to PM Modi for decades. Even for the post of President of India, individuals were carefully chosen in such a way that PM Modi alone would appear as the only towering leader before them.
