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Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav sacked from AAP national executive

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 28, Mar 2015, 14:02 pm IST | UPDATED: 28, Mar 2015, 14:36 pm IST

Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav sacked from AAP national executive New Delhi: AAP founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, who had challenged Arvind Kejriwal's leadership, were on Saturday removed from the party's powerful national executive by an overwhelming majority at the national council meet, a move slammed as "murder of democracy" by the duo.

Amid high drama, a resolution to remove the two dissident leaders was passed by 230 of around 300 national council members present in the meeting.

After making an emotional speech, party chief arvind Kejriwal left the venue before the resolution to remove the two leaders was introduced by Manish Sisodia. Yadav's supporters Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha were also removed from the Aam Aadmi Party's national executive.

"Democracy has been murdered in the National Council meeting," said Yogendra Yadav after coming out of the meeting. Yadav said after Kejriwal left, party leader and Delhi minister Gopal Rai was asked to chair the meeting and immediately after that Sisodia stood up and moved the resolution.

The AAP meeting was scripted and supporters of Kejriwal resorted to violence, claimed Yadav. "Everything happened there in a planned manner. It seems that everything was scripted," Bhushan said.

"There was no neutral factor, Lokpal was absent, our voices were suppressed, we didn't get a chance to answer. They called MLAs but did not allow our party Lokpal, this was an illegal meeting," said Prashant Bhushan after the meet.

"What Arvind said yesterday in that sting that we should be kicked out, today we have literally been kicked out," he added. "Sirf hangama hua hai, dhakka mukki hui hai, bogus voting hui hai, aur kuch nahii hua! It is a mockery of everything," said Yadav.

However, the party says that Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan will continue to remain primary members of AAP.

The internal rift within the party had widened after Yadav and Bhushan were accused of working for the party's defeat during the Delhi assembly polls last month. The party has also been rocked by a sting featuring an alleged telephonic conversation between Kejriwal and AAP leader Umesh Singh.