Hours after his unceremonious expulsion from the Aam Aadmi Party, Yogendra Yadav said that he had asked the party’s National Disciplinary Committee Chairperson Dinesh Waghela to list three reasons behind the step.
“I have asked him to give me three reasons behind the expulsion in spite of our detailed replies to the show-cause notices. We are yet to get a formal copy of the order. Got to know everything through media till now,” Mr. Yadav said.
Mr. Yadav also sought an apology from the party for running a campaign charging him with working to defeat AAP in the elections and conspiring to unseat Mr. Kejriwal from the National Convenor’s post.
“For two months you run a vicious campaign against me saying I wanted the party to lose the elections and conspired to become the National Convenor. And when it comes to disciplinary committee and formal inquiry you just drop those charges and come up with another complaint with 12 new items. The old charges are mentioned towards the end of the letter. So someone does owe us an apology,” he said.
The former member of AAP’s top bodies such as the Political Affairs Committee and the National Executive, said that Pankaj Gupta and Ashish Khetan, who were “complainants” became judges, which was “extraordinary”.
“It isn’t possible that those who are complainants become judges. They (Mr. Gupta and Mr. Khetan) have in writing and in public made allegations against us. And yesterday they sat on the judgement for those very allegations. This is extraordinary,” Mr. Yadav said.
On the ‘Swaraj Yatra’, the seeds of which was sown in the April 14 convention, Mr. Yadav said, “Will take out a two-month-long yatra throughout the country tentatively in August and will also hold 30-35 Swaraj Samvads.”
The first Samvad is scheduled to be held in Bangalore on April 29 while the second one will take place in Guwahati on May 1. Mr. Yadav said the group’s focus would be on the disillusioned sections of AAP, young entrepreneurs and social movement group.
