The 10-day-long negotiations to bridge the rift in the Aam Aadmi Party that started after the return of Arvind Kejriwal, have failed. The future of dissenting founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan will be decided through a vote in the National Council Meeting on Saturday.
After the meeting today, attended by members of the Political Affairs Committee, Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, senior party leader Kumar Vishwas said the leaders could not reconcile with Mr Yadav and Mr Bhushan. "A lot of effort had been made over the last 10 days. No further talks will be held to address the issue," he said.
Soon after, Mr Sisodia tweeted, saying, "Despite accepting all their demands they are insisting to remove AK. In public they say AK is the leader, in pvt they insist on his removal (sic)."
"They wanted RTI, party posts in Haryana... we accepted all that, but they still wanted Mr Kejriwal's removal," said Mr Vishwas.
"We realised that the aim of the talks was not to resolve our issues... the friends speaking on your behalf merely were interested in securing our resignation," the letter said.
The dissent within the party, which surfaced days after it swept the assembly elections in Delhi, has reflected in issues like including volunteers in decision-making and giving more powers to the party's state units, which are on the agenda of Saturday's meeting.
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