Yogendra Yadav questioned how the media knew the details of the show cause notice before he received it.
Staring
at an imminent expulsion from the party, AAP rebel Yogendra Yadav on
Saturday lashed out at the party on social media for the show cause
notice served on him, terming it as a “joke”.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.Mr. 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 Mr. 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,” Mr. Yadav said in a social media post.Mr. Yadav said that Mr. Wagehla had promised to look into this “violation of elementary principle of justice”.He
also sought to underline the irony of being served the notice for
“leaking” sensitive information to the media, saying that he was
apprised about the notice by the media itself.“By 10
p.m. the media already knew the contents of all the four letters. Could
anyone other than a committee member have leaked it?”“By
8 p.m. media told us that the notice has finally been issued and was
being hand delivered. I did not believe it, till we learnt that Prof
Anand Kumar’s notice was delivered at his home. Who is keeping the media
informed at every stage, I wonder”, Mr. Yadav said.
Inching
closer to the final swoop on dissidents, AAP on Friday served
show-cause notices to four senior leaders Mr. Yadav, Prashant Bhushan,
Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha, who were earlier expelled from the party
echelons.Mr. Yadav also heaped scorn on the other
members of the committee, including Ashish Khetan and Pankaj Gupta,
asking “ever heard of complainants and witnesses themselves becoming
judges?”“The Committee that has served the notice
and will decide the matter includes Shri Pankaj Gupta who had signed a
written public statement accusing Prashant Bhushan and me of anti-party
activities, the charge he is going to investigate now.“The
Committee also includes Shri Ashish Khaitan who had last month made
derogatory remarks against Prashant Bhushan and his family (which he had
to apologise for and delete) and was the key source of ‘evidence’ of
Prashant Bhushan’s anti-party activities during Delhi elections. He has
liberally cursed both of us on TV,” he charged.Mr.
Yadav demanded that the members recuse themselves from examining their
case and the party reviews the show-cause notice. “Will the committee
look into its own leaks before it sits down to examine someone else’s?
Or will the joke continue? Or should I call it a farce?”
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