AAP crisis: top 10 developments

March 28, 2015 02:47 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:30 pm IST

Aam Aadmi Party leaders Kumar Vishwas, Pankaj Gupta, Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia addressing a press conference during their National Council meeting at Kapashera in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo : Shanker Chakravarty

Aam Aadmi Party leaders Kumar Vishwas, Pankaj Gupta, Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia addressing a press conference during their National Council meeting at Kapashera in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo : Shanker Chakravarty

A proposal to remove Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan was moved at the Aam Aadmi Party National Council meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and was adopted with majority. Mr. Yadav’s supporters Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha have also been removed from the party's National Executive.

1 AAP removes Prashant Bhushan from the National Discplinary Committee.
2 Medha Patkar resigns from AAP's primary membership.
3 Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare says the fiasco is entirely the AAP’s “internal affair”.
4 Mr. Yadav’s supporters Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha also removed from the National Executive.
5 Sources say Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and Anand Kumar found guilty of planting false stories in the press.
6 A report of the AAP Delhi unit questioning Mr. Yadav’s and Mr. Bhushan’s “style of functioning” tabled at the meeting.
7 “Every MLA was given ten buses to get supporters to heckle me; what is happening to the movement is sad,” says Mr. Yadav.
8 Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan are still party members and have only been removed the National Executive.
9 "All options open, including going to Election Commission", says Mr. Bhushan.
10 "There was gundagiri (hooliganism) at AAP national council meeting and Kejriwal did nothing to stop it," says Mr. Yadav

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