While a section of the Indian populace looks on at Arvind Kejriwal and the newborn Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as the panacea to fix the political system and end endemic corruption, certain activists in the city are a tad more circumspect. With Mayank Gandhi and Anjali Damania, two associates of the activist-turned-neta, also facing graft-related accusations, detractors say the party’s internal Lokpal is just eyewash.

In a press conference earlier, activist and president of Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association Viren Shah had levelled charges of stamp duty theft on property purchase by Gandhi.u00a0Shah claims immediately afterwards he had sent a mail to Kejriwal with documentary evidence of his assertions to which he got a reply but no action was taken.