Days into power in Delhi, the AAP was grappling with a crisis Sunday after senior leader Prashant Bhushan, like colleague Yogendra Yadav, accused the leadership of violating party principles and said they had “faltered on several counts”. Referring to Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Bhushan also criticised the “one person-centric” approach of the party.
Team Kejriwal hit back, accusing Bhushan and Yadav of “attempting to unseat Kejriwal”.
Sanjay Singh, member of the AAP political affairs committee, tweeted: “The people who want to remove Arvind Kejriwal from the National Convenor’s, do they know what the worker is feeling?” Attached was a news clipping with a headline suggesting that Shanti Bhushan wanted Yogendra Yadav to be national convenor.
AAP social media head Ankit Lal too took to Twitter: “If AAP had only 20 seats, what a state these people would have left Arvind in. Despite 67 seats, questions are being raised about his political acumen. Those people who did not even have 2 jansabhas…”
A source said Dilip Pandey, part of the election campaign group, had also written to the party.
Matters came to a head after Bhushan shot off a letter to colleagues on February 26, the day the AAP national executive met.
He wrote that before the dissolution of the last Assembly “attempts were being surreptitiously made to seek Congress support to form the government again in Delhi without having to contest elections”.
A note authored by Bhushan and Yadav also emerged, detailing “concrete steps” that the party must take in future (see box).
On February 26, Kejriwal had offered to resign as national convenor but this was rejected. It was followed by a move to empower him to reconstitute the PAC, paving the way for the exit of Yadav and Bhushan from political decision-making processes.
Reached for comment, Bhushan said, “It is an internal letter to the NE . I can’t discuss it.”
In his letter, Bhushan said, “We must also recognise that we have faltered on several counts… Far from bringing the party under RTI, we have not even put our accounts on a website. We have put our donations, but not expenses.”
Bhushan said lack of recording of decisions of the national executive and the political affairs committee has led to decisions being “repeatedly flouted”. “… the one person-centric campaign is making our party look more and more like other conventional parties which are also one person-centric, the only difference being that we still claim we are wedded to the principles of Swaraj, while they don’t,” he wrote.
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