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Nearly 200 members of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Maharashtra unit, who were connected with expelled member Yogendra Yadav’s Swaraj Samad movement, have decided to tender mass resignations on May 4.
The party had recently issued orders dissociating itself from all those members who were part of Yadav’s campaign, following which senior AAP leader Maruti Bhapkar was the first to put in his papers.
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“Senior leaders from the Maharashtra unit, like Manav Kamble, Sanjeev Sane, Lalit Babar, are expected to tender their resignations. We are expecting over 200 members to resign on May 4, in support of the campaign,” said Shakil Ahmed, a member of the party who also plans to resign. All these are mass-based leaders who joined the party after spearheading social movements in Maharashtra. Their departure is likely to hit the party’s prospects in the state.
Meanwhile, party national spokesperson and senior state leader Preeti Sharma Menon said, “AAP Maharashtra is a very strong organisation. Two hundred is a highly exaggerated figure. It is about 20 to 30 people who had gone for Swaraj Samwad in April. It is a bit sad that people choose to part ways but it really will make no difference to the party and our support in this state is not based on individuals. It is on the concept of AAP.”
Senior leaders Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha and Anand Kumar were removed from all party posts last month.
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