[3][4] Shastri led Delhi Dialogue along with Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal, Preeti Sharma Menon.

[citation needed] Shastri was instrumental in managing organisational affairs of Aam Aadmi Party and as the State Observer for Himachal Pradesh[9] for Mission Vistaar[10] which is being carried out by Aam Aadmi Party for organisation expansion across the nation with the objective to reach out to the multitude of citizens of this country, who share the ideology of the Aam Aadmi Party and want to play a meaningful role in nation building and to reorganize the organisational units at various levels through a bottom-up democratic process.

[12] Shastri left his job as the sales head for Apple, India and joined Aam Aadmi Party[2] led by Arvind Kejriwal an anti-corruption activist turned politician.

[needs update] Shastri is also the National Secretary of Indian Cellular Association, the apex body of the mobile industry comprising Brand Owners; Technology Providers; Manufacturers; National Distributors; Application, Solution and VAS Providers, Ethical Retailers and eminent Consumers of mobile handsets which has been constituted to provide value and service to the mobile cellular handset industry in India by fuelling its growth, improving competitiveness, helping create a legal and ethical market and regulatory environment, thereby providing long term benefits of mobile connectivity to the Indian masses.

[17] As the result of this mediation, Nokia, Motorola & HTC had been reasonably open to the idea of price parity between online and retail channels.