Arvind Kejriwal had told his Aam Aadmi Party that he would quit as chief if Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, who have repeatedly criticized him, continued in a key decision-making panel, a party leader said in a blog post today.
Mayank Gandhi, a senior AAP leader from Maharashtra, has gone public with his strong objection to the manner in which Mr Yadav and Mr Bhushan, both founder members, were voted out of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) at AAP's meeting on Wednesday.
Arvind Kejriwal is in Bengaluru for 10-day naturopathy treatment for his high sugar and coughing problem.
He shares that the meeting was called because Mr Kejriwal, who had tweeted on Tuesday that he did not want to be dragged into the infighting, had told the party that he could not work with Mr Yadav and Mr Bhushan anymore.
"On 26th Feb night when members of the NE went to meet him, Arvind conveyed that he will not be able to work as convenor if these two members were part of the PAC," he writes.
Mr Kejriwal's second-in-command Manish Sisodia discussed the ideas with AAP's Delhi leaders Ashish Khaitan, Ashutosh and Dilip Pandey - the three are powerful but don't have voting rights - and finally moved a resolution to drop the leaders.
Yogendra Yadav told reporters, "I don't want to comment on the blog, but I only want to say one thing. Finally, truth prevails."
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