Within a month of the landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party is on the verge of a split. The day began with release of an audio tape by a former AAP MLA exposing Arvind Kejriwal who is heard asking his supporters to engineer a split in the Congress Legislature Party and form government with outside support.
The tape was recorded just before the dissolution of the Delhi Assembly after the Lok Sabha elections. Hours after the tape was released by Rajesh Garg, a former AAP MLA from Delhi, two senior leaders Prashant Bhusan and Yogendra Yadav released a letter to the Press. The duo have written a letter to the volunteers of the party with demands to conduct an internal probe by party Lokpal into all the charges levelled against them by Kejriwal supporters. Yadav refused to comment further.
Meanwhile, Anjali Damania, a senior leader and supporter of Kejriwal from Maharashtra, resigned from the party following the audio tape saying she does not want to remain with people who encourage horse-trading.
Amid all the developments, no official statement has come yet from Kejriwal or his supporters who have been demanding to suspend Prashant Bhusan and Yogendra Yadav from the party for anti-party activities during the Assembly elections in Delhi.
Kejriwal who became the chief minister of Delhi for the second time following a landlside victory, has been undergoing treatment in Bangalore since last week.
