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03. Bhushan Yadav worked for
maligning AAP image
Sanjay Singh "Yogendra Yadav and
Prashant Bhushan are responsible for the
prevailing inner party conflict. Both these
leaders had strongly advocated contesting Lok
Sabha elections across the country. But when the
party fared badly, they held Arvind Kejriwal
responsible for it," he said.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh
defended the party's decision to remove senior
leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from
the Political Affairs Committee, even as he
sidestepped queries as to whether their
expulsion was next on the cards. "Yogendra Yadav
and Prashant Bhushan are responsible for the
prevailing inner party conflict.
Both these leaders had
strongly advocated contesting Lok Sabha
elections across the country. But when the party
fared badly, they held Arvind Kejriwal
responsible for it," he said.
To a question whether the
duo could be expelled from the party in near
future, Singh said it was too early to say. "All
the issues are being considered and whatever
decision is taken will be on the basis of
facts," he said.
The AAP spokesman, who was
here on a private visit on Monday, accused the
ousted leaders of launching an anti- Kejriwal
campaign. "(Last year) Yogendra resigned from
the PAC writing a seven-page letter...matters
which should have been raised at party forum
were made public as part of a conspiracy," he
said.
"During the Delhi Assembly
polls, Prashant maintained distance and also
said he wanted the party to lose...only after
this kind of behaviour they have been expelled
from the PAC and their future responsibilities
will be decided by the party," he said.
Singh noted that AAP
convener Arvind Kejriwal's statement that the
party will concentrate on Delhi for the next
five years did not mean the party will not
expand its base. "Mission Expansion has been
launched under which party organisation will be
strengthened in six months and the issue of
contesting polls in states where AAP's network
is strong will be considered," the AAP leader
said. In the first official statement by top
party leaders since the infighting came out in
the open, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia,
Transport Minister Gopal Rai, party's General
Secretary Pankaj Gupta and Sanjay Singh today
accused Prashant Bhushan, his father Shanti
Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav of "working for the
party's defeat and maligning Kejriwal's image".
AAP said that it was
compelled to come out in the open as the two
leaders were giving statements to the media.
"They were trying to portray as if the decision
to drop them from the PAC was irresponsible and
undemocratic," the leaders said in the
statement.
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