Need to inform volunteers about national executive meet: Mayank Gandhi

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Mayank Gandhi on Thursday said that there was a need to inform the volunteers transparently about the discussions that took place in the national executive committee meet.

"There was a need to inform party volunteers transparently about what happened in National Executive meeting," Mayank Gandhi told ANI here.

"I have put across my point as well as I could in the blog. The blog was directed towards the volunteers. I really do not think that I would like to use the media to take these party things outside. I have talked to the volunteers through a blog and I think you should read whatever you want to read into that," he said.

Gandhi has strongly objected to the way senior AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were removed from the Public Affairs Committee (PAC).

In an aggressive blog, Gandhi said he decided to go by his conscious and break the National Executive diktat of not speaking to anyone outside about what transpired in Wednesday's meeting.

Describing himself as a disciplined soldier of the party, he said that the removal of both Yadav and Bhushan from the PAC went against the volunteer spirit of the AAP, and was downright dishonest in both thinking as well as in action.

"My presence in the National Executive is only as a representative of the volunteers. And I would be dishonest to accept the gag order. The volunteers cannot be removed from the equation; they are the source of the party. Rather than get information from selective leaks and stray statements, I have decided to give some factual details of the meeting in the public domain," Gandhi said in his blog.

He said that he was warned about disciplinary action being taken against him if he revealed anything about Wednesday's national executive meeting.

Gandhi said that during the Delhi campaign, Prashant Bhushan had threatened multiple times that he will hold press conference against the party, because of his concerns on candidate selection, but the threat was staved off till the elections.

"It was alleged that Yogendra Yadav was conspiring against Arvind and some evidences were produced. There were also operational irreconcilable differences and trust deficit between AK, PB and YY," he added.

He confirmed that Kejriwal had said that he would not be able to work as convener as long as both Bhushan and Yadav were part of the PAC.