Shanti, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were working towards party’s defeat in Delhi: Top
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New Delhi, 10 Mar 2015: Senior AAP leaders in a statement on Tuesday said that Yogendra Yadav, Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan were working for the party’s defeat during Delhi elections.
The statement has been issued jointly by AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai, Pankaj Gupta and Sri Sanjay Singh.
In the statement, they clarified that the March 4 national executive (NE) had decided to release Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) and assign them new responsibilities.
"While all workers were struggling to ensure the party’s victory, the trio - Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav and Shanti Bhushan - were making all out efforts for the party’s defeat," the joint statement said.
"The PAC did not publicize the reasons behind the move as it could affect the senior duo’s reputation... But the manner in which an atmosphere has been created that the NE was undemocratic and irresponsible, and the questions raised in the minds of the AAP activists, we are compelled to give this explanation," the statement added.
Citing examples of the same, the statement mentioned that Prashant Bhushan called AAP leaders of other states during the Delhi election and tried to convince them not to campaign in Delhi.
"I won’t campaign, you shouldn’t either...Arvind needs to be taught a lesson," Bhushan said, according to AAP leaders’ statement.
In their statement, Sisodia, Rai, Gupta and Singh said that Prashant Bhushan tried to stop people for making donations to the party during the Delhi polls.
They also said that Bhushan told Ashish Khetan he was trying to limit AAP’s seat tally to 20-22 in Delhi, only then the party’s leadership would change.
Hitting out at Yogendra Yadav, AAP said that he was planting stories against Arvind Kejriwal and AAP in national dailies. They claimed that Yogendra spoke to journalists off the record against AAP.