“You’re Intoxicated By Power”: Anna Hazare To Arvind Kejriwal On Delhi Liquor Policy Row
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Anna Hazare was the face of the 2011 anti-corruption movement, from which AAP emerged. (File Photo)New Delhi: "Like liquor, power too intoxicates. You are intoxicated by power, it seems." This is one of many scathing lines in social activist Anna Hazare's letter to his former mentee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, over his government liquor licence policy, which was withdrawn in July after a corruption case."This is the first time I am writing to you since you became chief minister, because I am pained at recent news reports about your government's liquor policy," the letter, in Hindi, says at the outset."You had written idealistic things on liquor policies in your book 'Swaraj', for which you got me to write the introduction," he says, quoting from it that no liquor shops ...