Amid high drama at the AAP's national council meeting in
Delhi on Saturday, rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhusan were
finally sacked from the party's national executive after a resolution
was passed in which majority of the party members voted against them.
Protests and commotion broke out between the warring factions at the venue in Kapashera when some 200 of the 300 members of the national council signed the resolution to oust them.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was also present at the meeting.
Yadav said his supporters were attacked by Kejriwal loyalists when the proceedings to oust them were taking place. He alleged that professional bouncers were used to subdue some of their supporters at the meeting when they demanded more discussion on the matter.
He said that a group led by two MLAs of the Kejriwal camp started to thrash and kick rival members as soon as their names came up at the meeting.
Yadav, who staged a dharna before entering the meeting venue, told reporters that many of the members were denied entry despite having all their documents.
The decision is nothing but a "mockery of democracy", the estranged leader said.
"This meeting was fixed and our voice was muzzled," he added.
Bhushan, who was also removed from the national executive, said "What happened today was exactly what Arvind Kejriwal said yesterday, we have literally been kicked out, physically."
"Violence was used against our supporters," he said.
On Friday, the warring factions had levelled serious allegations against each other.
Providing more ammo to the dissidents, a fresh audio recording surfaced in which Delhi Chief Minister is allegedly threatening to form a new party after leaving AAP if required.
The recorded voice, purportedly of Kejriwal's, uses expletives against Bhushan and Yadav during a conversation with a volunteer from Varanasi.
The recording accuses Yadav and Bhushan of working for AAP's defeat in the 2015 assembly elections. "I will take my 66 MLAs and go my separate way. You all can run AAP. I have nothing to do with it. Why don't you go to them and talk? Your good team did not leave any stone unturned to defeat us in Delhi. Had they been in any other party, they would have been kicked out. They are kamina people of the first order," the chief minister allegedly said.
Both Yadav and Bhushan are founder members of the party. In their defence, both had maintained that they wanted more transparency and inner-party democracy.
Meanwhile, as the turmoil continued in the party, the Delhi government has remained in a state of paralysis for the past six weeks.
Protests and commotion broke out between the warring factions at the venue in Kapashera when some 200 of the 300 members of the national council signed the resolution to oust them.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was also present at the meeting.
Yadav said his supporters were attacked by Kejriwal loyalists when the proceedings to oust them were taking place. He alleged that professional bouncers were used to subdue some of their supporters at the meeting when they demanded more discussion on the matter.
He said that a group led by two MLAs of the Kejriwal camp started to thrash and kick rival members as soon as their names came up at the meeting.
Yadav, who staged a dharna before entering the meeting venue, told reporters that many of the members were denied entry despite having all their documents.
The decision is nothing but a "mockery of democracy", the estranged leader said.
"This meeting was fixed and our voice was muzzled," he added.
Bhushan, who was also removed from the national executive, said "What happened today was exactly what Arvind Kejriwal said yesterday, we have literally been kicked out, physically."
"Violence was used against our supporters," he said.
On Friday, the warring factions had levelled serious allegations against each other.
Providing more ammo to the dissidents, a fresh audio recording surfaced in which Delhi Chief Minister is allegedly threatening to form a new party after leaving AAP if required.
The recorded voice, purportedly of Kejriwal's, uses expletives against Bhushan and Yadav during a conversation with a volunteer from Varanasi.
The recording accuses Yadav and Bhushan of working for AAP's defeat in the 2015 assembly elections. "I will take my 66 MLAs and go my separate way. You all can run AAP. I have nothing to do with it. Why don't you go to them and talk? Your good team did not leave any stone unturned to defeat us in Delhi. Had they been in any other party, they would have been kicked out. They are kamina people of the first order," the chief minister allegedly said.
Both Yadav and Bhushan are founder members of the party. In their defence, both had maintained that they wanted more transparency and inner-party democracy.
Meanwhile, as the turmoil continued in the party, the Delhi government has remained in a state of paralysis for the past six weeks.
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