Day after resigning, Ashutosh wishes Kejriwal on birthday
NEW DELHI: A day after senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh announced his resignation from the party, he took to Twitter to wish Delhi chief minister and party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal on his birthday.
Kejriwal had refused to accept Ashutosh’s resignation on Wednesday and had said everyone in the party “loved him a lot”.he had said it would not be possible to let the party spokesperson leave, at least “not in this lifetime”.
On Thursday, at 4.30pm, Ashutosh tweeted, “Many many happy returns of the day to @Arvindkejriwal (sic)”.
Though Kejriwal did not reply to the tweet, he acknowledged Ashutosh’s wishes with a retweet.
The TV journalist-turnedpolitician’s announcement was followed by a series of tweet by senior AAP leaders, urging him to withdraw his resignation and reconsider his decision.
Several volunteers had also circulated pictures of Kejriwal hugging Ashutosh after the landslide victory of the party in the 2015 Delhi assembly elections, captioning it ‘jaane nahi denge tujhe (we will not let you go)’. “My relationship with Ashutosh will always be that of a dear friend, a truthful human being, and a trustworthy partner throughout my life. His decision to leave the party will be a heart-wrenching episode for me,” Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh had tweeted on Thursday.
On Thursday, however, no AAP leader was seen at Ashutosh’s residence in Noida Sector
ASHUTOSH DID NOT REVEAL THE REASON FOR HIS RESIGNATION AND REQUESTED
FOR PRIVACY
105. On Wednesday, AAP’S Delhi convener Gopal Rai and senior leader Dilip Pandey had reached his house to convince him to withdraw his resignation but Ashutosh was not at home.
Leaders confirmed on the condition of anonymity that since Wednesday afternoon he was being pacified over phone calls. A lot of the calls made went unattended, they said.
Ashutosh did not reveal the reason for his resignation and requested for privacy. In his tweet, he had said his decision was prompted by “very very personal” reasons.
He had, however, stopped attending important meetings and party functions since January when the AAP announced the Rajya Sabha candidate list.