The furore over the Aam Aadmi Party's impending split has thrown up an unlikely name. Nikhil Dey, the renowned social activist associated with National Campaign for People's Right to Information, was reportedly approached by an AAP leader to buy Congress support in forming government in Delhi, in November 2014.
The furore over the Aam Aadmi Party's impending split has thrown up an unlikely name. Nikhil Dey, the renowned social activist associated with National Campaign for People's Right to Information, was reportedly approached by an AAP leader to buy Congress support in forming government in Delhi, in November 2014.
Dey confirmed that he was approached but he immediately turned this person down. "I have no role to play in this. I told them that I belong to neither this party nor that," says Dey, explaining why he ended the matter then and there.
While confirming that someone in AAP had approached him, he refused to name the person and even the political party he was asked to approach to. Calling himself a bystander in all this, he distanced himself from the party's current crisis and all the charges and counter charges flying around.
Prashant Bhushan's letter, written to AAP's national executive on February 26, said that "but even as late as November, just before the actual dissolution of the Assembly, attempts were being surreptitiously made to seek Congress support to form the government again in Delhi without having to contest elections." This, his letter explains, flouted the decision taken by the national executive (NE) of "not seeking Congress support for forming the government in Delhi after we resigned last year".
This confirms Bhushan's charges of AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal going against the NE's decisions and his apprehensions of transparency getting lost in the party.
It also directly refutes the statement given by party leader Ashutosh to the media on Monday, where he denies that the party ever approached the Congress for support.
This issue is going to come up again for discussion on February 4, when the party's NE meets to figure out a strategy to extricate itself from this situation. Sources say that Bhushan and Yogender Yadav, who have consistently been raising issues about what's wrong with the party, will most probably be voted out of the party's parliamentary affairs committee.
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