Camp Kejriwal thaws frosty relations with Yogendra
As Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal landed in the national Capital on Monday, senior leaders of the party seemed to have got into reconciliation mode. leaders from the ‘Kejriwal camp’ met Yogendra Yadav on Monday night and held discussions over several controversial issues, which have been building up in the last couple of weeks. While the content of the discussion has not been disclosed, leaders have termed the discussions as “positive”.
According to sources, prominent AAP leaders Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh and Ashish Khetan met Yadav on Monday night and had an elaborate discussion. Reportedly, the discussion went on till 3 am on Tuesday. Ironically, Yadav and senior leader Prashant Bhushan had sought time from the Chief Minister for a meeting regarding this ongoing controversy. However, Kejriwal didn’t respond to their message on Monday, but instead other party leaders met Yadav at his residence.
According to sources, the meeting was an attempt to ‘break the ice’. An AAP leader said, “The meeting was preliminary in nature. Prashant (Bhushan) had already sent a message yesterday. There was a lot of bad blood in the past few weeks… This meeting has come as a positive sign. We had not spoken to each other since the March 4 meeting. But still there are issues on both the sides which need to be sorted out. However, it is too early to comment on how things will pan out in coming days.”
Additionally, Singh tweeted, “We were bothered with what was happening in the party for the past few days. We started talks with Yogendra bhai. The start was good.” Sources close to Yadav too echoed similar sentiments.
Kumar Vishwas tweeted on the meeting as well. “There is peace after a three-hour sleep. There is peace now. We will be successful,” he said on Tuesday morning. Sources claimed that representatives from the Bhushan-Yadav camp and Kejriwal camp had a meeting on Tuesday evening in an attempt to reconciliation.
Over the past few weeks, the AAP had been embroiled in internal turmoil with leaders from both the camps making accusations and levelling allegations against each other. The Kejriwal camp had alleged that Bhushan and Yadav wanted the party to lose the Delhi Assembly polls and were attempting to remove the Delhi Chief Minister from the post of AAP national convener.
The duo was dropped from the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the party at a meeting earlier this month. Kejriwal flew back to Delhi on Monday night after receiving 12 days of naturopathy treatment in Bengaluru for chronic cough and diabetes.