Dissident Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav has said that party chief Arvind Kejriwal was always insecure about him. Speaking to NDTV about his expulsion from AAP's top decision making bodies, Mr Yadav said what's happening in the party is Mr Kejriwal's "Stalinist purge".
Here are the highlights of the interview:
- I feel ashamed of what we did to Lokpal
- The whole thing is such a farce
- Who will now have the courage to stand up and utter the work Lokpal
- All kind of accusations have been made, you don't get answers to questions, you just get accusations
- I requested Lokpal to conduct investigations against us
- Why has the party not made those investigations against us?
- Oral and written promises were violated
- I know what happened is illegal
- Let's not waste time on legal procedures
- I am member of this party, I will not talk about other parties
- I will not speak on forming a new party
- If they expel me from the party, then you can question this
- We came here to build a national alternative, not for the Raj of one person
- What we are seeing in the party today in Kejriwal's 'Stalinist purge'
- Arvind spoke of swaraj; it's now nothing but a one man Raj
- From the beginning, Arvind has been insecure vis-a-vis me
- Kejriwal has to correct himself, if he wants to move ahead
- AAP is not a property of some leaders; it has come up from a democratic upsurge