Weeks after he resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), former journalist Ashutosh Wednesday said he was forced to use his surname ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He said he was told that this would help him win, as there were several voters from his caste. His comments come a day after AAP’s East Delhi Lok Sabha candidate Atishi said she is dropping Marlena — derived from Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin — as her surname. 

Weeks after he resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), former journalist Ashutosh Wednesday said he was forced to use his surname ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He said he was told that this would help him win, as there were several voters from his caste. His comments come a day after AAP’s East Delhi Lok Sabha candidate Atishi said she is dropping Marlena — derived from Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin — as her surname.