By means of PTI
DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI: Two senior AAP leaders in Uttarakhand — Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) who was once leader ministerial candidate in 2022 meeting polls and previous running president of its state unit Bhoopesh Upadhyay — resigned from the birthday party on Wednesday.
Each the leaders tendered their resignations one at a time to Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) convener and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The previous military officer introduced his determination to hand over the birthday party on Twitter, posting a comfortable replica of his resignation letter at the microblogging website online.
The AAP had suffered a rout on the hustings with Kothiyal shedding his deposit from the Gangotri meeting seat.
“I’ve been a member of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration from April 19, 2021 to Would possibly 18, 2022. Conserving the emotions of ex-soldiers, ex para-military group of workers, the elders, girls, youths and the intellectuals, I’m sending you my resignation on Would possibly 18,” Col Kothiyal stated in his letter addressed to Kejriwal.
On the other hand, Upadhyay, who had joined the birthday party as a member on August 24, 2021, attributed his resignation to his disillusionment with the birthday party’s ideology.
“After turning into the running president of AAP, I realised it was once some distance got rid of from the ideology and dealing taste it professes, ” Upadhyay stated in his letter to Kejriwal.
He additionally described the birthday party’s provide in-charge and co-in-charge for Uttarakhand as “imposed” at the birthday party and accused them of working it just like the “brokers of East India Corporate” to reach their very own finish.
Kothiyal is claimed to were unsatisfied with the way in which he was once being handled via the birthday party submit his electoral defeat.
He had no longer been invited to a birthday party assembly held in New Delhi just lately to analyse its efficiency in Uttarakhand.
AAP chief Jost Singh Bisht, who broke off his lengthy ties with the Congress just lately to sign up for the Kejriwal-led birthday party, stated Col Kothiyal’s determination to hand over the birthday party was once private.
“He (Kothiyal) was once a number of the senior leaders of the birthday party. His determination to surrender is private as he has discussed no causes for it. Our just right needs for him for a vivid long run,” stated Bisht, who’s coordinator of the state unit of AAP.
Saying the identify of Kothiyal for his birthday party’s leader ministerial candidate in August remaining yr, Kejriwal had then stated the verdict to select the previous military officer because the birthday party’s CM face was once in keeping with the comments gained from folks of the state.
The AAP had large plans for Uttarakhand because it fielded applicants on the entire 70 meeting seats within the state and promised a slew of freebies to woo electorate.
On the other hand, the birthday party may no longer open its account within the state.