Earlier, Vishwas had lashed out at the coterie around Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and attributed the party's poor performance in Punjab and Goa election to them.
Already facing considerable internal strife, the crisis in ruling Aam Aadmi Party here exacerbated on Saturday as posters appeared outside the party office demanding the ouster of senior party leader Kumar Vishwas, terming him a "traitor" and hailing former Delhi in-charge Dilip Pandey for exposing him. "A friend of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he is not a poet but a traitor. He attacks while in hiding and backstabs. Remove such a traitor," read the posters pasted outside the Rouse Avenue.
As soon as the posters appeared, the party distanced itself from the issue. AAP's social media in-charge Ankit Lal stated, "A few suspended workers are trying to divide the party leadership by putting up such posters." Over this, the party wrote a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik, requesting him to register a case and probe into the matter. The letter stated that "humiliating words were used in the posters that have been placed over the walls of the party office with a intention to damage the party image". The party stated that they have got Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of the man who pasted the posters. "We are pursuing the matter with the Delhi Police," said Deepak Bajpai, former party spokesperson and the newly-appointed treasurer of the party.
But it did not go down well with Vishwas, who has been recently appointed the party's Rajasthan affairs in-charge. At a farmers' convention organised by the party at the Constitution Club, he pointed that he would ensure the workers under him adhered to the AAP core principles and went back to its "basics". Seem upset over the posters, he refrained from making any direct comment but said: "We (AAP) did not come into being for these conspiracies and palace politics hatched by five-six people. We are for the causes based on which the party was born at the Ramlila Maidan. The party will fight the Rajasthan polls with its real ideals."
The posters called Vishwas a BJP ally and demanded his ouster from the party. It also thanked Pandey, who quit as a convenor for AAP in April following AAP's defeat in Delhi civic polls, and accused Vishwas of collaborating with BJP and backstabbing other party and members.
Earlier, Vishwas had lashed out at the coterie around Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and attributed the party's poor performance in Punjab and Goa election to them.
Earlier this week, Pandey hit out at the poet-politician, asking why he was openly abusing Congress while going soft on Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
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