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AAP may agree to demands of Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan to put pressure to resign

March 21, 2015 | By Parmjeet Singh

New Delhi: As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) makes public for the first time minutes of its Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting – one of the few consistent demands of dissident leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan – sources said the party might agree to all their demands to put pressure on them to resign.

Headline Today refers to unnamed sources while reporting that Yadav and Bhushan had earlier written an e-mail (They now deny writing such an e-mail) to Kejriwal and few other leaders, indicating that if their demands are met they may step down from all party posts, including membership of AAP Executive, in the AAP India level Council meeting scheduled for March 28.

“Faction close to Kejriwal may agree to all their demands so as moral pressure is created on them to hold their end of the bargain,” India Today quotes sources.

The party’s Political Affairs Committee, in a meeting on March 17, had agreed to two demands of the duo about giving volunteers greater voice in decision making and also about expanding the party nationally.

On Friday, the minutes of the March 17 PAC were made public, hinting at reconciliation attempts between the two warring factions. The party has put the minutes of the meeting held at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Kaushambi residence on the party website.

The PAC took the decision that the triumvirate of organisational strength, strength of local leadership and political realities would be judged before deciding when and where elections will be fought by the country, the minutes of the meeting said.

Meanwhile, the uneasy silence of two warring AAP factions – one led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal aided by his Man Friday Manish Sisodia and the other by Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav – has led to speculations that the ongoing “reconciliation” attempts between the two camps are in fact a “tactical and politically calculated move.”

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Related Topics: Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, Indian Politics, Yogendra Yadav

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