Cracks seem to have developed in Apna Dal over the issue of leadership, with party MP from Mirzapur Anupriya Patel claiming to be elected as the president by the workers a day after her mother said she was expelled from the party.
Anupriya on Friday claimed that party workers had elected her as Apna Dal chief and her application in this regard was pending before the Election Commission.
“The so-called Party president Krishna Patel had on Thursday said that she had expelled me from the party but it had no meaning. I had already been elected as the president by the workers and the EC was informed in August last year about it,” Anupriya said.
I have sent all the papers to the EC in February this year and the matter is pending before it, she added.
The infighting between mother (Krishna Patel) and daughter (Anupriya) came to fore on Thursday when Apna Dal president claimed that the party’s Mirzapur MP has been expelled and also been stripped of party’s primary membership for alleged anti-party activities and indiscipline.
Stating that she has been charged with indiscipline, Anupriya said, the party could not tell which of her decision had harmed the party.
“I am moving forward with ideology of my father Sonelal Patel and workers are with me,” she claimed.
Krishna had also approached Hazratganj police station against her daughter to register an FIR against her for locking the party office.
In charge of Hazratganj police station, Vijaymal Yadav said that the matter was being probed.
Anupriya alleged that her mother, and Apna Dal vice-president and her sister Pallavi Patel were dragging her into unnecessary controversy. “Pallavi was made party vice-president by Krishna against the party constitution, according to which there is no such post ,” Anupriya alleged. - PTI
