Maker of AAP's Gandhi topis makes hay while the party shines

He didn’t think much of Arvind Kejriwal when he met him the first time and the Delhi trader who is behind the Aam Aadmi Party’s distinctive Gandhi topis wasn’t sure about his decision to supply caps to the party given the uncertainity over whether they would provide enough business. “When he (Kejriwal) started his door-to-door campaigns with just five people tailing him in Connaught Place against Sheila Dikshit, I thought he was wasting his time," Mohammed Chaman, the trader was quoted as saying in a Telegraph report. Meeting Kejriwal in his office didn’t help improve his impression either and given his family had always been supplying publicity material to more established political parties, Chaman didn’t expect AAP to do much in the state elections. [caption id=“attachment_1307635” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. Reuters[/caption] It didn’t help that the AAP’s first order of caps was for just 2,000 units, they demanded the cheapest material, they refused to pay without receiving receipts and Chaman had to forgo half his profit margin. However, it has all ended well for the trader with the party finally ending up buying over three lakh caps from him so far, and given Kejriwal’s set to be the next chief minister he’s hoping to sell another lakh caps before his swearing in on Saturday. Read the complete Telegraph article here