Another functionary, Ashutosh, described the rift as a "churning" within the party. "It's clash of ideas between ultra left who demand referendum in Kashmir and pragmatic politics of welfarism," he tweeted on Monday morning, adding: "This will make way for future politics of AAP. This is my personal view.''
Earlier, Delhi functionaries, including Durgesh Pathak and Dilip K Pandey, accused the Shanti-Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav trio of conspiracy to unseat AAP. Pathak said that it was shocking that Yadav and Prashant Bhushan wanted AAP to lose the Delhi polls, while Pandey accused them of conspiring it to unseat Kejriwal as national convener.
Singh said that when at its national executive meeting was held last week, Kejriwal had tendered his resignation it was opposed by the members, who had insisted that he should continue as the AAP national convener. "It was decided at the meet last week that Kejriwal will continue as the party chief and there is no question of removing him from the post. If this is the case, then how will the party work? Will the volunteers like it? Those wanting to remove Kejriwal as party chief should also take the emotions of party workers into consideration," Singh said.
Yadav, however, claimed that he and Prashant Bhushan were the first ones to raise their hands to reject Kejriwal's offer of resignation at this meeting. As against this sign of softening, there was Bhushan's letter of February 26 in which he said AAP was becoming "one person-centric" which was making it look like other parties and was antithetical to the concept of 'swaraj' espoused by AAP.
Along with Yadav, he also gave a joint letter to the national executive and demanded activation of an ethics and grievance committee. Internal Lokpal Admiral (retired) L Ramdas too had pointed to opposing camps working at cross-purposes in his note.
"One person-centric campaign, which was run during Delhi elections, is making our party look more and more like other conventional parties that are also one-person centric. The only difference being that we still claim that we are wedded to the principles of 'swaraj' while they don't," Bhushan had said in the letter.
Amid the ongoing rumbling within the AAP, Yogendra Yadav in a facebook post said all the stories on the crisis in the party are "imaginary" and it was time to work after the big victory in the polls and not indulge in "petty acts.''
"New stories are being planted and allegations are being levelled against (us) and conspiracies are being hatched...I am saddened, but also find it funny. I find it funny because these are baseless. Those scripting stories have a lot of time but I feel sad with the intention. The government of Delhi has given us our biggest victory. The time is to work after the big victory. The country has a lot of expectations from us. I can expect that from our petty acts, we should not let this ray of hope become small," Yadav said in a Facebook post.
Sources said that a final decision would be taken on Wednesday at the national executive meeting.
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