Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav was arrested by the Delhi Police while he was leading a protest by farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan at Jantar Mantar against the government's proposal to change the way farm land is acquired for infrastructure projects.
Former leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Yogendra Yadav reportedly visited Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa today at village Hassanpur, Ludhiana.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) last night (April 20) expelled it’s founding leaders Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha for alleged anti-party activities and “gross indiscipline”. They were served a show-cause notice two days back, to which three leaders, except Ajit Jha, had replied in writing.
I received your "Show Cause Notice" around midnight on the 17th. Frankly, I have been in a dilemma on whether to respond to this communication. On the one hand it appears part of a pre-scripted drama where the outcome is already decided and well-known. Participating in this drama could only legitimize it, I am told.
"Terming the contribution of Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan to the party and its ideology as vast, Ms. Patkar defended the two leaders, recalling their participation in people’s movement and the campaign against corruption", The Hindu reports.
Party principles were compromised in the selection process and I do not see any logic in blaming people who legitimately called foul, a foul. I do not see any logic in shunting out people who are asking for the implementation of the very principles that the AAP was founded upon.
The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) National Council (NC) meeting witnessed violence after Manish Sisodhia moved a resolution to oust Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha and Anand Kumar from Aam Aadmi Party's National Council for alleged anti-party activities.
Less than a week time is left for the Aam Aadmi Party's India level council meeting, but warring camps of the AAP did not find any ground to reconcile. According to media reports the ongoing negotiations between the two warring camps within Delhi ruling party are on the verge of collapse as neither side is willing to budge on critical issues.
Sikh Siyasat's Editor Parmjeet Singh (Gazi) talked to Sikh author and analyst S. Ajmer Singh about internal rift of the Aam Aadmi Party that has clearly divided the party into two camps one led by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy in government Manish Sisodia and other led by Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav.
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.
Bhagwant Mann, Aam Aadmi Party's MP from Sangrur, has termed the AAP executives' decision to remove party's founding leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from 'Political Affairs Committee' (PAC) as a 'mild step', while adding that Yadav and Bhushan 'deserve more'.
Arvind Kejriwal had told his Aam Aadmi Party that he would quit as chief if Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, who have repeatedly criticized him, continued in a key decision-making panel, a party leader said in a blog post today.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced the removal of two top leaders, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, from party's top-decision making body called Political Affairs Committee (PAC). The decision was taken in six hour long meeting of AAP executive.
The Aam Aadmi Party has committed a serious breach of trust by “illegally” recording a telephone conversation of a journalist without her permission and using it as evidence to settle intra-party disputes, said Chandra Suta Dogra, the reporter involved in the matter.
The rift in Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has once again come out in the open. After senior party member Admiral Ramdas's explosive letter, AAP co-founder and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan has shot off a letter to the National Executive of the party expressing his anguish over the growing divide and trust deficit in the party.
It is notable the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was surprised by the people of Punjab with four Lok Sabha seats, whereas the party was not able to win even a single seat in rest of India during last Lok Sabha elections. AAP had lost all 7 seats in Delhi, which was considered to be it's strong-hold. Aam Aadmi Party's recent resurgence in Delhi is expected to affect dynamics of vote politics in Punjab where Badal-BJP combine is likely to face strong anti-incumbency factor.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav maintained that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is heading for two-third majority in Delhi assembly elections.
In a bid to keep the party united and to make a full stop on the infighting, the Aam Aadmi Party has rejected the resignations submitted by its leaders Yogendra Yadav and Naveen Jaihind on Saturday.