AAP rebels Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan plan to bring swaraj abhiyan to Delhi

NEW DELHI: After a national-level swaraj samvad in Gurgaon, the team comprising the four dissident members of AAP, Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha and Prof Anand Kumar, will hold another meeting in Delhi. The four, who are facing disciplinary action by the party, will go ahead with the new movement that they have launched irrespective of the party's evident displeasure at its first meeting.

Kumar, who is the convener of the movement now called swaraj abhiyan, said they would start with zonal-level meetings from the end of April. "We have already decided to hold meetings in Delhi, Gujarat, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. The swaraj yatra is also being planned in various district within three months. An agenda also has to be prepared for India on issues of water, child deaths, education, female foeticide etc for which we will take opinion and ideas from experts in various fields," he said.

AAP's parliamentary affairs committee had forwarded a complaint against the four to the disciplinary committee, accusing them of anti-party activities. Even as they say they will work from within the party, it is likely that they will find their primary memberships withdrawn by the next week.

Meanwhile, Timarpur MLA Pankaj Pushkar, the only legislator to openly show his support for the four, has so far been spared any action. However, he is likely to face immense hostility within the party. Sources claim that when he tried to find an MLA to propose his name for the Delhi University court, in which Delhi Government has two representatives, nobody stood up in his support.

While Pushkar denied the incident, claiming that he only showed an interest in the nomination procedure but did not actually want to fill the form, sources said he took the nomination form, called some MLAs but everyone refused.