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Never demanded Kejriwal's removal as national convener: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi, Mar 26 (IBNS): Amid rifts and turmoil within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), senior party leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday said he and Prashant Bhushan never demanded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's removal from the party's national convener post.
"Ridiculous claim that we insisted on AK's removal. This wasn't mentioned in our note, never came up for discussion. Can they give any proof?," he wrote on twitter.
"More info about fake campaign coming in. If anyone calls you on my behalf & solicits support for me against AK, please note the no & report," said he.
He also ridiculed reports that he and Bhushan resigned from the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC).
"I hear funny news about the PAC accepting our resignation. Will my colleagues please produce a copy of the resignation letter?," he wrote.
"What is being passed off as "resignation letter" is a note for internal negotiations. We said we will resign if 5 conditions were met," said he.
The AAP leader also said the other faction of the party is spreading a lie about his demand to head Haryana.
"Another lie that I asked for Haryana. Actually they repeatedly offered Haryana. We refused to even discuss it," said he.
Meanwhile, Prashant Bhushan also told CNN-IBN channel that they never wanted Kejriwal's removal as the party's national convener.
He went to the extent of saying that Kejriwal wants people who toe the line. He said Kejriwal doesn't want members having independent opinion and thus, want their removal.
Both leaders refuted that their demands of internal reforms were met during the negotiation meetings.
Efforts of reconciliation between the two warring factions in the party appeared to have collapsed on Wednesday, media reports said Thursday.
The meeting was held at Arvind Kejriwal's house on Wednesday evening.
Reports suggested that while Arvind Kejriwal is insisting on Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan quitting the National Executive, the other faction, according to the CM loyalist, want to seek a regime change in the party.
This comes ahead of the National Council meet scheduled on Mar 28.
The National Council meeting is expected to focus primarily on the future role of Yadav and Bhushan.
Amid turmoil within the AAP, the national executive of the same on Mar 4 decided to remove its founding members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from the party's PAC.
The AAP had registered a landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly polls to form the government in the national capital.
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