AAP rift widens, new audio sting emerges

In the phone conversation, Kejriwal is speaking to a party leader.

Kejriwal even said he is planning  to quit the AAP and form a 'new party'.

In the clip, the AAP supremo is heard saying that the leaders would have been 'kick out' for their acts if they world have belonged to any other party.

The authenticity of the clip could not be verified so far.

As the crisis within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is turning worse with no hope of truce between the two warring sections, senior leaders, who have also turned out to be rebels now, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav on Friday hit out at party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and accused the top leadership of spreading lies.

Bhushan even lamented that there is lack of democracy within the party and that Kejriwal only wanted people who "would listen to him without putting up any opposing view."

"The only thing which the negotiators have been telling all these days is that we will resolve all issues but you resign," Bhushan alleged at a press conference here.

He said that they are even ready to resign from all executive bodies if their demands for an internal reform are met.

"If they meet all our demands of internal reform we will resign tomorrow morning. But all they are doing is spreading lies about us," he said.

Bhushan also exposed the root cause of their discord and said the Delhi Chief Minister earlier wanted to return back to power with the support of the Congress Party.

"This all started after the Lok Sabha election when Arvind wanted to form the government back in the Delhi with the support of Congress. I said it was not correct to form government with the support of the Congress after resigning. Arvind said he can take decisions for his own after hearing out our views. He said he had the power as the national convenor to reject any decision," Bhushan alleged.

He said loyalists of Kejriwal informed that the Delhi CM did not want to work with them anymore.

"Arvind has insisted that he cannot work with us in the party. He said either they work for the party and I move aside and form a state party with my 66 MLAs or if I have to conduct the party, they have to move," said he.

Talking about how they tried to mend the differences within the party, Bhushan said, "I sent a message on March 16 that Kejriwal should meet me or Yadavji for talks but unfortunately he did not get the time to meet us. Rather he sent representatives to speak to us."

Yogendra Yadav also said that removing Kejriwal was never an issue for them and all they demanded was internal reform of the party.

"We raised questions on internal democracy within the party. We raised demand for a need of more powers to the state units. We raised demand to launch probe through an internal lokpal into the allegations that have been levelled on the party. We raised the demand that the voice of the volunteer must be heard. We said that the rule of transparency that we demand from others should also be applied internally upon us. We asked the posts at the national level of the party which are vacant to be filled up," Yadav said as he quoted his 5-point demands.

This comes ahead of the national executive council meet in Delhi on Saturday.

Amid turmoil within the AAP, the national executive of the same on Mar 4 decided to remove its founding members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from the party's PAC.

The AAP had registered a landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly polls to form the government in the national capital.