AAP reinstates Okhla MLA Amanatullah after 6 months
COMEBACK Khan taken after disciplinary committee gave clean chit
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has reinstated Okhla member of legislative assembly (MLA), Amanatullah Khan, who was suspended in May this year after his tirade against party’s founder member Kumar Vishwas.
“I got a call from senior party leader Ashutosh on Sunday night who informed me that I have been reinstated in the party,” Khan said.
Khan had sparked a controversy after the party’s poor performance in Delhi municipal polls in April, by accusing Vishwas of being an “RSS-BJP agent” and plotting a coup in the party. On May 3, 2017, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting of the party decided to suspend Khan till f urther enquiry by a disciplinary committee.
A three-member committee constituted to find why Khan made the allegations against Vishwas, comprised of party leaders, Pankaj Gupta, Atishi Three days after municipal poll results came out on April 26 and AAP lost, Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan had accused Kumar Vishwas of being an “RSS-BJP agent” who was trying to split the party.
The Political Affairs Committee decided to suspend Khan and make Vishwas the party incharge for Rajasthan, to go for elections in 2018.
Khan was, however, made a member of seven Delhi Assembly committees.
Khan was reinstated after a disciplinary committee com-
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Marlena and Ashutosh . “He has been reinstated after due process of investigation by the disciplinary committee,” said a party spokesperson.
“It may have something to do with Rajya Sabha elections in January or the momentum that AAP has generated in Rajasthan,” said Vishwas, who is the prising of AAP members Pankaj Gupta, Atishi Marlena and Ashutosh conducted an investigation.
party incharge in Rajasthan.
Days after the suspension, Manish Sisodia had met Khan at the latter’s residence, and Khan was made member of seven Delhi Assembly committees, set up by the speaker of the house.
The move, perhaps, was to placate the Muslim face of the party.