Peace breaks out in AAP
TRUCE Party pacifies Kumar Vishwas, gives him charge of Rajasthan, suspends Amanatullah
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal rode out a storm in his AAP as he suspended on Wednesday a legislator who called senior leader Kumar Vishwas an “RSS agent”, a remark that fueled a fire of dissent in the Capital’s ruling party.
The party’s political affairs committee (PAC) met at Kejriwal’s home and decided to make poet-politician Vishwas the AAP in-charge for Rajasthan, which faces assembly elections in 2018.
Also, the AAP suspended Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan who had accused Vishwas of doing the BJP and RSS’s bidding and trying to split the party.
The decisions were taken to placate Vishwas, who has been part of the 2011-2012 anti-corruption movement that gave birth to the Aam Aadmi Party. He was unhappy with the party’s stand on blaming electronic voting machines for the AAP’s defeats in this April’s civic polls in the city.
Vishwas was assigned an important task on Wednesday as Rajasthan is a crucial state in the party’s plans to expand its national footprint, after losses in the Punjab and Goa polls.
The leadership says it has about a million members in Rajasthan and is among the four states where the AAP is planning to fight assembly polls. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia was overseeing the party affairs in the western state.
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