Rift in top Aaam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership
While a senior AAP leader said it is a clash of ideas and not personality, media reports said AAP is roiled by internal differences of two groups.
"We believe in internal democracy. We are a different party. It is not a war between two personalities, but war of ideas," AAP leader Ashutosh told reporters.
AAP National Executive will meet on March 4.
Yogendra Yadav, however, tweeted: "Let petty politics not come in the way of our greater purpose."
Pro-Kejriwal leaders alleged that Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and Shanti Bhushan were conspiring against Arvind Kejriwal.
AAP's Delhi secretary Dilip Pandey alleged that Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and Shanti Bhushan acted "in concert towards a singular aim of weakening the party and then replacing Kejriwal with Yadav as party head."
He in a letter targeting the anti-Kejriwal group said: "Worst part was when, a few weeks before elections, Mr Prashant Bhushan said in presence of a senior Party Leader and a Mission Vistar member that he would rather want the party to loose the elections so that Kejriwal could be removed and a major overhaul of the party could be carried out. Bhushan refused to campaign for the party and also planted several anti-party stories at a time when the party was going through its most severe crisis."
He said in another part of the letter addressed to Pankaj Gupta, National Secretary, Member (Disciplinary Committee): "Before General Elections, 2014, Mr Vijay Raman, who was personal assistant of Mr Yogendra Yadav and was handling his election campaign, phoned Mr Satya, an important party member and told him that Mr. Yadav wanted to interview him for a role in his core team. When Mr Satya went to meet Raman, the latter told him that Mr Arvind Kejriwal didn't have the required political acumen and it was imperative for Mr Yogendra Yadav to take over as National Convenor of AAP after removing Kejriwal from the post. Mr Satya was shocked to hear this. He informed senior members of the party of how Mr Yadav's office was conspiring against Kejriwal and hatching conspiracies to take over as the party convenor."
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