AAP's National Council meeting begins with Yadav staging a dharna

Yadav, who was joined by another leader Anand Kumar, stopped the dharna a while after saying that some council members allowed in for the meeting.

"Some of the AAP National Council members denied entry to the meeting no allowed. I'm going inside and will try for others to be allowed or register my protest," he said.

The meeting is being held amid a heightened internal strife that  appears to have reached the point of no return with the likelihood of Yadav and another rebel leader Prashant Bhushan being thrown out of the party.

About 400 national council members of AAP are supposed to attend the meeting.

However, few of them, including admiral Ramdas have reportedly been asked by the party not to attend it.

Yadav and Bhushan claim that they are being forced out of AAP by party chief Arvind Kejriwal for demanding more transparency and internal democracy.

With  hopes for a possible reconciliation drifting away, a split in the party  looked almost certain  on Friday after a series of press conferences held by rival camps led by rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on one side and party chief Arvind Kejriwal on the other.

Yadav and Bhushan fired the salvo first calling Kejriwal a 'dictator surrounded by yest men.' Then Kejriwal camp hit back accusing the rebel duo of taking the party to a strait.

In an audio record produced by the rebel camp Kejriwal was heard purportedly using expletives against Yadav and Bhushan and even threatening to form a new party.

Reacting to this, Bhushan said, "I did not know Kejriwal has this much poison in his mind for me and Yogendra Yadav. This party was not supposed to be one man party."

However, the Kejriwal camp claimed that "private" conversations of leaders were being "recorded" for the past nine months to "blackmail" the leadership.