AAP changes logo on 100th day of governance after former supporter who designed it refuses its use.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has changed its logo after one of its former volunteer demanded that the logo be not used following the fiasco that resulted in the ousting of Yogandra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan. The party has changed its Twitter and Facebook logo, the official website still uses the former one.
The aggrieved AAP volunteer Sunil Lal has claimed ownership to intellectual rights on the party's logo and said that he was revoking it, as the party failed to meet his expectations. Taking it to microblogging site, Sunil Lal, who claims to be a designer of AAP Logotype and volunteered to do branding for the Janlokpal movement had tweeted a link of the letter sent to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and said, "Revoking my intelligent property of the 'AAP' logotype from Aam Aadmi Party."
In a letter to party's national convenor Kejriwal, Lal asked the party not to use the logo in any form of branding including on stationary, website, handbills, flags, posters etc.
Asking the party to stop using the logo with immediate effect, Lal added, "The logo I had designed for the party was never transferred to the party and it is still my intellectual property."
He also asked the party to accept his resignation as primary member of the party. On Tuesday, a software engineer and AAP supporter, Kundan Sharma, who had donated a Blue WagonR to Kejriwal in January 2013, made a demand that it be returned. In a tweet, Sharma had expressed his disappointment over the removal of party leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav. "#IDemandMyDonationBackFromAAP: My blue WAGONR,my Bike&lacs of rupees that I donated2AAP."
"We deserve what we accept for. Bigger dream of clean politics was sacrificed from winning Delhi. No one will dare to clean politics for next three decades," Sharma tweeted.
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