AAP's Maharashtra unit leader Anjali Damania has become the latest to join in the widening divisions in the party. She is seeking disciplinary action against national executive member Mayank Gandhi, who in a blog post had claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal insisted on the ouster of Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the party’s political affairs committee.
AAP's Maharashtra unit leader Anjali Damania has become the latest to join in the widening divisions in the party. She is seeking disciplinary action against national executive member Mayank Gandhi, who in a blog post had claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal insisted on the ouster of Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the party’s political affairs committee.
Damania told The Indian Express that days before the AAP National executive meet, Gandhi himself approached AAP convenor Kejriwal offering to move the resolution against Yadav and Bhushan. "I was surprised that after offering to move the motion against the two, Gandhi refrained from voting and then openly blogged against the party. There has to be disciplinary action against him," claimed Damania.
Damania also raised questions about how despite Yogendra Yadav's rhetoric of one-person, one-post, Maharashtra convenor Subhash Ware and Tamil Nadu convener Christina Samy were allowed to vote in the national executive meet. Samy and Ware were among the eight who voted in favour of Yadav and Bhushan staying on in the party’s top decision making body, while Gandhi refrained from voting. The duo were ousted with 11 votes against them during the AAP’s national executive meet on March 4.
Damania also slammed the repeated media leaks by other 'so-called leaders'. Going a step further, she then claimed that Prashant Bhushan had said that 'AAP should lose (the Delhi elections)'.
'I am absolutely shocked at how these so-called leaders have conducted themselves. There is a grievance redressal system within the party and an internal Lokpal which they could have approached. Time and again they have approached the media which is unacceptable,' said Damania.
Also, Damania’s party colleague and former Maharashtra AAP secretary Preeti Sharma Menon and Navi Mumbai-based member SV Subramanium have recently sent separate letters to AAP national general secretary Pankaj Gupta against Ware holding dual posts.
Meanwhile, speaking to The Indian Express, Bhushan said the 'manner of the decision has created a perception among volunteers that the party is not united'.
But Kejriwal, admitted to a naturopathy institute in Bangalore on Thursday, told Headlines Today: "I am really pained by the developments, I am only interested in Delhi."
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