New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party's national council meet on Thursday wasn't the slugfest between founder-member Kumar Vishwas and the leadership that many in the party thought it would be. Both the camps held back, hoping perhaps to fight back another time.
The council -- where bitter differences had earlier led to the ouster of founders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav -- witnessed no such heated incident this time.
But some AAP members said this was the lull before the calm and were waiting to see who would strike first.
For the first time since AAP's inception in 2012, his name was not on the list of speakers at the NC meeting, but was asked to speak as a state in-charge, he said.
"To this, I said, 'I don't have anything to say right now'," Mr Vishwas told PTI when asked what transpired in the closed-door meeting here of the party.
"He was asked to speak on party preparations in Rajasthan. He did speak, not once but twice," said Delhi unit's chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj.
"I thought only the BJP and the Congress are scared when I speak. But now there are some more people who are also scared that I will open my mouth," Mr Vishwas said.
Mr Vishwas has been at odds with the top brass ever since he questioned the leadership over a string of defeats, especially after its poor faring in Punjab and Goa, the Rajouri Garden by-poll and the drubbing in the civic body election in Delhi.
The council -- where bitter differences had earlier led to the ouster of founders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav -- witnessed no such heated incident this time.
But some AAP members said this was the lull before the calm and were waiting to see who would strike first.
For the first time since AAP's inception in 2012, his name was not on the list of speakers at the NC meeting, but was asked to speak as a state in-charge, he said.
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"To this, I said, 'I don't have anything to say right now'," Mr Vishwas told PTI when asked what transpired in the closed-door meeting here of the party.
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"He was asked to speak on party preparations in Rajasthan. He did speak, not once but twice," said Delhi unit's chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj.
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"I thought only the BJP and the Congress are scared when I speak. But now there are some more people who are also scared that I will open my mouth," Mr Vishwas said.
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Mr Vishwas has been at odds with the top brass ever since he questioned the leadership over a string of defeats, especially after its poor faring in Punjab and Goa, the Rajouri Garden by-poll and the drubbing in the civic body election in Delhi.
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