Colleague taped Kejriwal saying let’s break Congress

A sting operation on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by one of his own partymen is the latest blow to the Aam Aadmi Party, which is known for using sting operations on other political parties and asking people to sting those indulging in wrongdoing.

Recorded in July, a time when AAP was fighting a case in the Supreme Court seeking fresh elections in Delhi, the audio clip that surfaced on Wednesday relates to purported conversations between Kejriwal and former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg. In one of the conversations, Kejriwal urges the former Rohini legislator to try and “separate” six Congress MLAs, ask them to form their own party and support the AAP from outside.

The recording has added another element to the raging battle in the AAP leadership, which has seen senior leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav on one side, and Kejriwal and his supporters on the other. Ironically, those who have targeted Yadav and Bhushan over the past fortnight also used a sting recording containing a conversation between a journalist and Bibhav Kumar, a Kejriwal aide, as evidence of Yadav “planting stories” against the AAP national convener.

In response to allegations made by four senior AAP members against them on Tuesday, Bhushan and Yadav in a joint letter also raised the point of Kejriwal attempting to form government with the Congress immediately after the Lok Sabha defeat, leading to disagreement with them.

In one of the conversations with Garg, Kejriwal purportedly says that “Manish” — an apparent reference to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia — was in touch with Congress MLAs, but they were not agreeing to join hands with AAP, and that no announcement should be made until the “other side agrees”.

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Source:Indianexpress

Arvind Kejariwal