After being dropped from the Aam Aadmi Party’s Political Affairs Commiittee, the party’s founder-member Yogendra Yadav, in an exclusive interview, said that though Arvind Kejriwal had acquired an iconic stature, "to assume organisationally party can be reduced to that, would be unfortunate." He told NDTV that AAP has struggled between "remaining viable, successful, winnable and being ethical, different, ideal", and that if his and Prashant Bhushan's departure has helped highlight some of these principles, it has actually served the cause.