Show-cause notice a 'joke', no mention of any anti-party

Rebel AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, who has been served a show-cause notice for allegedly working to ensure the party's defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections, today called the notice a "joke" and claimed there was no reference to the charges of anti-party activities against him.
Yadav said the AAP leadership ran a propaganda with these charges and even termed him and Prashant Bhushan as "traitor" and demanded an apology for running a "malicious campaign".
He also termed the show-cause notice, issued to him, Bhushan, Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha, as a "joke". The rebel camp is expected to respond to the notice by tomorrow.

"The show-cause notice does not even have a reference of what I have done to defeat the party in the elections. The notice does not even have any accusation against me of conspiring to replace Arvind Kejriwal as the party convener.
"These two points were being used against me for the last two months by the party in its propaganda against us. Attempts were being made to instigate the volunteers and to project us a traitors.
"And today when the time of probe arrived all the allegations have vanished. Where did the allegations go using which we were termed traitors in the National Council. If these allegations were lies then who will apologise?" Yadav said in a statement.

He also questioned how the media knew the details of the show-cause notice before he received it and accused members of the disciplinary committee of "leaking" it.

Yadav wondered as to how the national disciplinary committee took the step without keeping its Chairman Dinesh Waghela in the loop.
He claimed that in a telephonic conversation Waghela, who was "not in Delhi", had told him that the panel is yet to take up the matter.
"Last evening I had spoked to Mr Waghela, the Chair of Disciplinary Committee. He said he was not in Delhi and had no idea of a possible show-cause notice to us except from TV news! As yet, nothing has been referred to him, he said," Yadav said in a social media post. Yadav said Wagehla had promised him to look into this "violation of elementary principle of justice".