AAP’s Menon, Damania resign from party posts

The Mumbai unit of the Aam Aadmi Party suffered a major blow Tuesday after two of the party’s most prominent faces tendered resignations from their party positions. State convener Anjali Damania, who contested the Lok Sabha election unsuccessfully against Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur, and state secretary Preeti Sharma Menon resigned citing personal reasons.

Both had resigned in June and had spoken of their unhappiness with developments in the party in the aftermath of the LS polls. Soon after, they withdrew their resignations. Though AAP is not contesting the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the resignations of Damania and Menon from their leadership positions in the state executive committee indicate a churn within the party that is at present supposed to be focusing on party-building.