AAP EXPELS YOGENDRA YADAV AND PRASHANT BHUSHAN

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POLITICS// Two founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were sacked from the Aam Aadmi Party’s key panel for their controversial remarks against the party’s way of functioning. The duo had been demanding more transparency and internal democracy within the party. They openly hit out at Arvind Kejriwal, which didn’t go down well with the latter. “He has displayed today that he is willing to use his dictatorial powers to ruthlessly stifle dissent and ruthlessly stop any discussion or opposition to what he wants,” said Bhushan. Though the party rubbished these allegations, Kejriwal hit out by saying “Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan tried to defeat AAP in Delhi polls.” “It was murder of democracy”, countered Yadav, as they were voted out of the party’s National Executive. Activist Medha Patkar also quit the party condemning the ouster of the two founder members for challenging the chief.

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