Yogendra Yadav on Thursday responded to his expulsion from the Aam Aadmi Party's highest decision-making body, saying he will not quit the party.
"Na todenge, na chhodenge. Sudhrenge aur sudhaarenge (We will neither break the party or leave. We will reform ourselves and the party)," Yadav, who along with Prashant Bhushan had openly questioned Arvind Kejriwal's leadership, said.
Yadav had made the same statement before joining the National Executive meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday where he and Bhushan were expelled from the AAP's Political Affairs Committee. Yadav refused to comment on the decision, saying, "The party has taken a decision. We should not discuss the proceedings of the meeting. I won't comment on that."
On the blog written by AAP leader Mayank Gandhi in defiance of Kejriwal's gag on revealing details of the National Executive meeting, Yadav said, "I have read Mayank Gandhi's blog. I just want to say that truth eventually comes out."
The psephologist-turned-politician also dismissed reports of him being given charge of Maharashtra. "Where have these things come from? I only read about them in newspapers," Yadav told reporters. "I wish to say clearly, there was no bargaining in yesterday's meeting," he said.
"It would be presumptuous of me and Prashantji to believe that we were the two conscience keepers of the party. The party has thousands of conscience keepers," Yadav, who had contested the last year's Lok Sabha elections from Gurgaon as an AAP candidate, said.
"I have been getting messages from AAP supporters from all across the nation in the last 12 hours. I want to tell them to have faith," he said.
Meanwhile, Kejriwal once again said he was hurt and pained by the massive rumbling within the two-year-old party. "I am really hurt and pained by the developments. I am only and only interested in Delhi. We will make Delhi into a model place," the Delhi Chief Minister, who left for Bangalore on Thursday for a 10-day naturopathy treatment, said.
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