"It doesn't lend itself to good governance...to good practices... it's like a child throwing tantrums all the time," he said.
"The CM of Delhi, should he be sitting on a dharna for the lynching of the northeastern boy, or should he be working with police or society in general and saying look this is the sin of all collective and we have to improve? What is the use of sitting at Jantar Mantar unless this is just to get yourself on the TV and front pages...?" he asks.
Tushar Gandhi is the author of "Let's Kill Gandhi" which attempts to clear misconceptions about the Mahatma's death. In March 2005, he organised and led the re-enactment of the Salt March on the 75th anniversary of the iconic movement.
He believes Hazare's movement that spawned AAP is an "exploitation" of his illustrious great-grandfather's legacy. It "lacked introspection" and "consistency", he points out, something which is uncharacteristic of a social movement.
"Anna's movement was convenient...he decided not to go the hard way because he knew if he started challenging people who were coming to join him he would be left with very few who had the courage to say, 'I am corrupt and the system won't change unless I change'," said Gandhi who is the son of veteran journalist Arun Manilal Gandhi and the grandson of Manilal Gandhi, the second son of Mahatma Gandhi.
