India Inc in AAP: Captain Gopinath becomes latest entrant

Looks like several India Inc members are taking a leap of faith in the Aam Aadmi Party. Just days after former Infosys executive V Balakrishnan and Meera Sanyal, former chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland joined AAP, a report in the Economic Times states thatCaptain Gopinath, who pioneered the low-cost airline business in India, too has been taken on board by the party.

“I expressed my interest in joining the AAP three weeks back. I was always part of Anna movement when Kejriwal-Anna were together,” Captain Gopinath told ET NOW. He, however, said his role in the party is not yet clear.

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Captain Gopinath had earlier contested and lost as an independent candidate from the Bangalore South constituency in 2009.

So is the zeal to fight corruption head on and bring in a global perspective to change things locally prompting leaders from India Inc to join the AAP?

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“AAP a wants clean candidates with good track record to come to power,” Balakirshnan told _CNBC-TV18 i_n an interview while Sanyal feels AAP has done a lot of homework, certainly for Delhi and is now putting in place is a national economic manifesto.

“They have a lot of good people round the table, some very fine minds, people from corporate world, from finance, from IT, sitting around the table and debating this issue. This I can tell you as a banker, diversity of opinion is good. If you want the right outcomes, have the right process, have the right people involved and you will have the right answers,” she told CNBC-TV18.

Just a few days ago, Adarsh Shastri, the grandson of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, quit his job at Apple to join AAP.