Besides, the NE also reconstituted the National Disciplinary Committee and constituted two new panels – one to ascertain the current status of the organisation across different states and another to supervise preparations of protest against the Land Acquisition Bill outside Parliament on April 22.
“The three-member new internal national Lokpal panel will be headed by Dilip Kumar. The two other members are former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), presently a high court lawyer, Rakesh Sinha and academician S P Verma,” said a AAP spokesperson.
The first internal Lokpal panel of AAP, headed by Admiral L Ramdas, was appointed in 2012, which had its first sitting on Nov 28, 2012. Social activist and professor in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai, Ilina Sen, wife of social activist and alleged Maoist sympathiser Binayak Sen, was the second member in the first internal national Lokpal panel of the party; while the third member Justice M B Shah, had recused himself.
Senior AAP leader Prashant Bhushan, who was recalled from National Executive in the National Council (NC) meeting of AAP on Saturday, has been dropped from the reconstituted national disciplinary committee. The reconstituted committee will now be headed by Gujarat-based AAP leader Dinesh Waghela (63) with national secretary Pankaj Gupta and Ashish Khetan as its members.
Waghela had unsuccessfully contested against BJP’s Paresh Rawal from Ahmedabad (East) in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. He is said to have left home at the age of 11 years, spent nine years in the Himalayas in search of peace but returned to work in a tea stall to earn his livelihood. He then graduated in Philosophy and joined Kejriwal’s India Against Corruption during the days of the Jan Lokpal movement.
NE has also constituted a committee headed by senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh to ascertain the current status of the organisation across different states and submit the report within 15 days. “This report will form the basis of the road ahead, including the state of preparation for contesting elections, if any, in future,” said the spokesperson.
The party has also constituted a six-member committee to implement the decision of NC of organising a protest outside Parliament against the Central government’s Ordinance on Land Acquisition on April 22. The members of the committee are – Ilyas Azmi, Prem Singh Pahari, Yogesh Dahiya, Somendra Dhaka, Gurnam Singh, and Kiran Bissa.