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Two rebellions, who are sacked from the Aam Aadmi Party’s national executive seems to found another political party. As per sources, AAP’s Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav called their supporters for a meeting on April 14, which is B.R. Ambedkar’s birthday. The participants including close aides to the duo such as Lokpal Admiral L Ramdas and Narmada Bachao Andolan’s Medha Patkar etc;
This gives strength to the idea of the both forming another party.

On Monday, national executive member and Bhushan-Yadav sympathizer Rakesh Sinha expressed his surprise at being kept in the dark over the NE meeting a day earlier. Saying a lot of decisions had been taken in a hurry, Sinha said, "The issue I feel most uneasy about is the treatment given to our outgoing Lokpal. While appointment of new Lokpal was indeed due, I wonder if our outgoing Lokpal was given adequate opportunity to name his successor as envisaged in our rules."

Meanwhile, there was considerable tension in state units. The Punjab unit is already divided with parliamentary committee Chief Dharamvira Gandhi, who is MP form Patiala, throwing his lot with the rebel duo. Maharashtra functionary Maruti Bhapkar expressed his "disgust" over the happenings in the party, "Whatever happened in NC meeting was nothing short of murder of democracy. I am deeply hurt and giving serious thought to quitting the party."

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