The full extent of the brewing rift within the Aam Admi Party (AAP) has now emerged in two internal notes accessed by NDTV, the first jointly written by Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, and the second by Bhushan alone which take a critical view of the party's functioning.
It is these notes which some believe to have led a section of the party to push for the removal of both these AAP leaders from the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of AAP, the party's highest decision making body.
The joint Yadav-Bhushan note, written on February 26, 2015, summarises concerns raised by the party's ombudsman, Admiral Ramdas, about the problems with the functioning of AAP.
The Yadav-Bhushan note also raises concerns over alleged dubious practices by AAP candidates in the Delhi elections, saying that the AAP's defence of these candidates "to outsiders seems we are hiding behind plausible deniablity that other parties use."
A separate letter by Mr Bhushan on the same day was harsher, taking direct aim at Mr Kejriwal.
In perhaps his most damning allegation, Mr Bhushan alleges that ''even as late as November, before the dissolution of the Delhi Assembly, attempts were made surreptitiously to seek Congress support to form a government without having to contest elections."
While AAP has officially chosen not to reply to these letters, party sources by way of defense released a letter written on March 1, by its Delhi state secretary, Dilip Pandey, accusing Mr Yadav, Mr Bhushan and his father, Shanti Bhushan, of conspiring to unseat Mr Kejriwal as national convenor. "It was amply evident that all three were acting in concert towards a singular aim of weakening the party and then replacing Kejriwal with Yadav as party head," the letter said.
Mr Pandey also alleged that the trio aided the formation of the break-away volunteer group AVAM (which later exposed the dubious donations). "Shantiji and Prashant gave legal and all other kinds of assistance to AVAM to carry out activities against the AAP," wrote Mr Pandey.
The letter, despite being written by a mid-level functionary, was endorsed by the party leadership an indication of how just weeks after its resounding victory in Delhi, the AAP is roiled by a bitter and personalised factional war.
The letter written jointly by Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan:
The letter written by Prashant Bhushan:
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