However, the Kejriwal camp hit back claiming that "private" conversations of leaders were being "recorded" for the past nine months to "blackmail" the leadership.
TV channels aired the conversation purportedly between Kejriwal and one Umesh Singh, a party worker, in which the AAP chief loses his cool and tells the worker to better go and work with Yadav and Bhushan.
Insinuating that the tape was the handiwork of dissident leaders Yadav and Bhushan, AAP leaders said that the taped the conversation was to be released at a press conference addressed by the duo earlier today.
"That did not happen and it was later leaked to the media," party spokesperson Deepak Bajpai said. However, he refused to comment on the authenticity of the tape.
"This also reveals that they had been hatching the conspiracy against the party leadership for quite some time now," he added.
"When Prashantji (Bhushan) heard the tape for the first time, he was deeply hurt. We really have no words to explain the kind of words he's (Kejriwal) heard using," a leader said.
Yadav, in his response said "this is not at all an issue for me, I have no complaints...He's my younger brother and has all the rights to say that.
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