Speaker, AAP say reference to Rajiv not part of adopted text, Lamba welcomes party stand

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was on Saturday busy dousing the controversy over reference to Rajiv Gandhi during adoption of a Delhi Assembly resolution on 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as Speaker Ramniwas Goel asserted that the demand for revocation of the Congress leader's Bharat Ratna was not part of the resolution passed by the House.

Senior AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said "no resolution mentioning late Rajiv Gandhi has been passed". He also rejected party MLA Alka Lamba's claim that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had sought her resignation for not supporting the resolution in the Assembly on revoking late Gandhi's Bharat Ratna.

"Neither any resignation has been sought and nor anyone is resigning," Sisodia said at a press conference, a day after Lamba tweeted that she has been asked to tender resignation.

Separately, Lamba told PTI, "I am not resigning."
Jarnail Singh, later had said, "At the last moment Somnath Bharti (MLA) gave me the third point about Rajiv Gandhi. The technical issue is that the third point was not there in the copies distributed to the members of the House. But everything happened on record despite the technical shortcoming."