AAP leader Mayank Gandhi questions ousting of Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan from key panel

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“On 26th Feb night when members of the NE went to meet him, Arvind conveyed that he will not be able to work as Convenor, if these two members were part of the PAC. That was the background of the NE on 4th March,” Gandhi wrote in the blog post.

Kejriwal, who suffers from high blood sugar and chronic cough, skipped the all-important meeting and is in Bangalore for a naturopathy treatment.

Gandhi wrote that during the meeting, both Bhushan and Yadav expressed their intention to stay out of PAC. But Yadav put forward two formulas  — one, that the PAC be reconstituted to allow new members to be voted in and two, the PAC to continue working in the present form with neither Bhushan or him attending its meetings.

“The meeting broke for some time and Manish and others conferred with the Delhi team of Ashish Khetan, Asutosh, Dilip Pandey and others. After reassembling, Manish proposed a resolution that YY and PB be removed from the PAC and it was seconded by Sanjay Singh,” Gandhi wrote. He added to say that he abstained from voting.

Gandhi wrote that while he agreed with Yadav and Bhushan taking alternative roles within the party, he was “taken aback by the resolution of removing them publicly, especially as they themselves were willing to leave.”

“This decision to sack them was against the overwhelming sentiments of volunteers from all over the world,” he wrote, admitting that he is knowingly breaking the party’s diktat of not sharing the meeting’s details.

Gandhi’s blog post is yet another turning point in what has become a raging feud within the party, that stormed to power in the Delhi Assembly elections in early February. Sharp differences have come to the fore within the party amid allegations that Yadav and Bhushan were conspiring together to remove Kejriwal from the national convener’s post.

Yadav, a day after his ouster from the PAC, told reporters today that he did not believe in holding important posts within the party.

Responding to Gandhi’s blog post, Yadav said, “I don’t want to comment on his blog, but I only want to say one thing. Finally, truth prevails.”