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AAP heads for showdown; Yadav, Bhushan likely to be sacked


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New Delhi, Mar 27, 2015: The reconciliation talks between warring Aam Aadmi Party​ (AAP) factions have failed and it appears to be a matter of time before senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan are sacked from the party. Here are the latest developments from the AAP crisis:


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AP Volunteers Aawaz Manch (AVAM) is also likely to hold a press conference today.
   
Meanwhile, BJP has hit out at AAP amid its ongoing internal crisis. “AAP has degenerated into the worst kind of a party where one man is at the helm. It is turning to be another Congress where one man and one family rules,” said BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao.
   
AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan are expected to hold a press conference today amid reports that they will be sacked from the party at tomorrow’s National Council meet.
   
The AAP is heading for a showdown with reports stating that senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan would be sacked from the party at Saturday’s National Council meet.

The latest round of negotiations to end the infighting ended in failure on Thursday night with both sides making allegations and counter-allegations against each other.

The AAP yesterday accused both Yadav and Prashant Bhushan of continuing to work against party chief Arvind Kejriwal. The duo, however, denied the allegations and said they had been told clearly during the negotiations that nothing less than their resignations from the National Executive would do.

AAP leader Ashish Khetan even claimed that the two had tendered their resignations but the duo denied this.

Khetan, a Kejriwal loyalist, said after a meeting of the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee that there will be no further talks with Bhushan and Yadav and that all the issues will be taken up at the National Council meeting on Saturday.

Bhushan, meanwhile, told a press conference last night that they had never sought Kejriwal’s resignation as the national convenor.

Shortly after, AAP leader Sanjay Singh told a counter-press conference that the two leaders’ (Yadav and Bhushan’s) ego led to the failure of reconciliation talks.

Last evening, senior party leaders Manish Sisodia also tweeted, "Talks with PB and YY failed. They insisting on removing AK from National Conv post. NC to decide on 28 July weather to remove AK or not! (sic)"

“Despite accepting all their demands they are insisting to remove AK. In public they say AK is the leader, in pvt they insist on his removal. (sic)”

Bhushan and Yadav, in an open letter, accused Kejriwal of initiating the reconciliation talks only to secure their resignation from the the National Executive and alleged that he was not showing seriousness on any of the major issues raised by them.

In the letter, Bhushan and Yadav said they had offered to resign, provided the party accepts a number of their demands to ensure greater transparency in the party.

"Slowly it dawned upon us that the principle intent of these talks is to secure our resignation. The bottomline for interlocutors from your side was that the two of us must resign from the National Executive. We were told that this is your personal insistence.

"We were told that you are not willing to be the national convenor as long as the two of us are members of National Executive," Bhushan and Yadav said in the letter.

Yadav and Bhushan, who have already been removed from party’s Political Affairs Committee, further said they were told that Kejriwal was not willing to be the national convenor if they are part of the National Executive.

"This is exactly what you had said when demanding our removal from PAC."

In the letter, Yadav and Bhushan also claimed that they had never made any attempt to dislodge Kejriwal from national convenor’s position in the party and that they always extended whatever support they could give to him.

"We have been compelled to communicate to you through this open letter. It is ten days since the two of us asked you for an appointment on your return from Bangalore. But you have not yet managed to find the time slot for us," they said.

At a press conference, Yadav said he and Bhushan were ready to resign if five of their demands including ordering probe into all the recent allegations of irregularities by party’s Lokpal and allowing the party to public scrutiny under provisions of RTI.

Last night, Yadav also made public a "note", jointly written with Bhushan, which he had sent to the party on March 17 claiming that they had proposed their resignation from all party posts conditional to acceptance of their demands.

Countering the claim made by Kejriwal loyalists that the Yadav-Bhushan duo had voluntarily offered to step down, Yadav said that towards the end of the note, in which the duo laid down certain demands, they said upon acceptance of these they would resign from the National Executive and also give up other positions.

"If these are accepted, both of us will happily step down from the National Executive and will also give up all other party positions and responsibilities,” Yadav stated.

(With agency inputs)


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