The Aam Aadmi Party's Ashish Khetan has said that a phone conversation purportedly between its chief Arvind Kejriwal and a former legislator on how to get the support of six Congress MLAs is about "political realignment" and not "horse-trading."
Mr Kejriwal's AAP, born out of an anti-corruption movement, is known to conduct sting operations to back its allegations against political rivals and others and the party chief has often, publicly, encouraged people to use it as a tool to expose wrongdoing.
This once, he is at the receiving end; his former party colleague Rajesh Garg claims to have recorded a phone conversation he had with Mr Kejriwal in August 2014, months before the Delhi assembly was dissolved and fresh elections were announced.
A senior AAP leader Anjali Damania announced her resignation on Twitter citing the sting, "I quit.. I have not come into Aap for this nonsense. I believed him.. I backed Arvind for principles not Horse-trading."
Rajesh Garg, the AAP leader said, was a "disgruntled element" because the party did not give him a ticket for the Delhi elections last month.
In last month's elections, the Aam Aadmi Party registered a landslide victory, winning 67 of Delhi's 70 seats. The BJP won three, the Congress won none.
Arvind Kejriwal is in Bengaluru on a 10-day break at a health farm for naturopathy treatment for diabetes. He returns to Delhi next Sunday.
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