Gandhi not a shield to cover-up: AAP minister Kapil Mishra

New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) Mahatma Gandhi’s name cannot beused as shield to "cover-up", Delhi minister Kapil Mishratoday said taking a veiled dig at his party colleague Ashutoshfor seeking to defend sacked AAP minister Sandeep Kumar overan alleged sex scandal. In his blog on NDTV website, Ashutosh had claimed thatleaders like Gandhi and Pandit Nehru had "lived with theirdesires beyond social boundaries". "It is easy to link anything to Bapu’s life…connectingan aspect of his life to anything is easy, but not right," hesaid. Mishra said, "Any comparison with Bapu’s life can only bedone when there is a balance that can weigh, that can measure(his life)." In response to Ashutosh’s claim that Kasturba Gandhi wasvery much disturbed over Gandhiji’s relationship with SarlaChaudhary, Mishra said it is difficult to understand the bondbetween ‘Ba and Bapu’. "There is no Bapu without Ba". "If one reads the letters written by Ba to Bapu then onewill have a very different understanding of love," Mishra saidin a blog. Defending Sandeep Kumar, sacked as a minister andpilloried by Arvind Kejriwal for "betraying" AAP’s values,Ashutosh had said he did no wrong and action was taken againsthim solely for "perception management". Kumar was removed after an "objectionable" appeared whichshowed him in a compromising position with a woman. When contacted, Mishra refused to term his blog as anattack on Ashutosh, but said, it was a view different from theone held by his party colleague. "Bapu is a key to solve problems. He isn’t a shield tohide and cover-up," Mishra said in his blog. The Minister said one would require many lives to learnabout the ‘life of the Mahtama’. PTI PR TIR ZMNTIR