Attempts being made to remove Arvind Kejriwal as national convenor, says AAP
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | March 2, 2015 2:08 pm
The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday confirmed rifts in the party, saying attempts were being made to remove Arvind Kejriwal as the national convener.
Addressing a press conference amid reports of differences, party spokesperson Sanjay Singh said, “People in the party have made a joke of us.”
On Sunday senior leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav had accused the leadership of violating party principles and said they had “faltered on several counts”. Referring to Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Bhushan also criticised the “one person-centric” approach of the party.
Matters had come to a head after Bhushan shot off a letter to colleagues on February 26, the day the AAP national executive met.
He wrote that before the dissolution of the last Assembly “attempts were being surreptitiously made to seek Congress support to form the government again in Delhi without having to contest elections”.
Meanwhile, Yadav on Monday said all the stories on the crisis in the party are “imaginary” and it was time to work after the big victory in the polls and not indulge in “small acts”.
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He said the people of Delhi have given the party a massive mandate and one should not indulge in these small acts.
Yogendra Yadav refutes claims of rift in AAP over top party post
Published on Feb 27, 2015New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Saturday refuted claims of any rift in the party over the top party post. According to reports, Yadav who is one of the founder members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), could soon lose a top party post in a revamp reportedly spurred by a deep rift in the leadership. Sources say a group of 17 AAP leaders on Friday authorized Chief Arvind Kejriwal to rejig the Political Affairs Committee, which is currently headed by Yogendra Yadav. He said that AAP is not like other parties and that it does not involve in such political games.
New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Saturday refuted claims of any rift in the party over the top party post. According to reports, Yadav who is one of the founder members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), could soon lose a top party post in a revamp reportedly spurred by a deep rift in the leadership. Sources say a group of 17 AAP leaders on Friday authorized Chief Arvind Kejriwal to rejig the Political Affairs Committee, which is currently headed by Yogendra Yadav. He said that AAP is not like other parties and that it does not involve in such political games.
(With PTI inputs)