AAP RS PICKS STOKE INTERNAL TURF WAR

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday nominated senior leader Sanjay Singh, Delhi-based businessman Sushil Gupta and chartered accountant Narain Dass Gupta as its Rajya Sabha nominees, triggering a spat within the party. “We have decided to nominate Sanjay Singh, chartered accountant Narain Dass Gupta and social worker Sushil Gupta for Rajya Sabha,” said Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.

NEWDELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday nominated senior leader Sanjay Singh, Delhi-based businessman Sushil Gupta and chartered accountant Narain Dass Gupta as its Rajya Sabha nominees, triggering a spat within the party and criticism from opposition parties on its picks, besides evoking a sharp response from Kumar Vishwas who was conspicuously missing from the list of nominations.

“Be it the PAC or my elder brother Arvind Kejriwal’s decision on issues like the surgical strike, taking a soft stand on terrorists, his silence on ticket distribution and JNU... whatever truth I spoke, I have been rewarded and punished today,” said Vishwas, whose views on many of these issues ran counter to the AAP’S own.

“After deliberations over eight names in the Political Affairs Committee, we have decided upon the three names,” said Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. Both the Guptas are not very well-known and the decision to nominate Sushil Gupta, a businessman and a former Congressman, over a host of party leaders has not gone down well with many.