‘This is the beginning of the end of AAP’: Prashant Bhushan blames Kejriwal

New Delhi: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan held Arvind Kejriwal responsible for the Aam Aadmi Party’s poll debacle in the Assembly polls saying ‘This is the beginning of the end of AAP’.

Bhushan, who along with Kejriwal and others formed the party in 2012, said that Kejriwal changed the nature of the party, which was supposed to be a ‘transparent and democratic platform for alternative politics’, according to NDTV.

In a post on X, Bhushan said: ‘A party formed for alternative politics which was supposed to be transparent, accountable & democratic was quickly transformed by Arvind into a supremo dominated, non-transparent and corrupt party which didn't pursue a Lokpal and removed its own Lokpal.’

He said that Kejriwal built ‘a 45 cr sheesh mahal for himself & began travelling in luxury cars’.

Bhushan claimed that Kejriwal ‘binned’ 33 policy reports submitted by party's expert committees saying that ‘the party will adopt expedient policies when the time comes.’

Targeting Kejriwal further, he said that AAP chief believed that politics was all about ‘bluster and propaganda,’ adding that ‘This is the beginning of the end of AAP.’

Bhushan, who was part of the India Against Corruption movement led by Anna Hazare, worked alongside Kejriwal to form the Aam Aadmi Party.

Bhushan shared a letter he had written to Kejriwal ten years before in 2015 when AAP's disciplinary committee leadership expelled him and activist Yogendra Yadav over charges of anti-party activities.

In his letter Bhushan compared the party’s decision to expel him to Stalinist purge of dissenters in the erstwhile Soviet Union.

‘The removal of the Lokpal, us and others who questioned the manner of our removal, reminds one of Stalin's purge of dissenters in the Communist party of Russia,’ he wrote at the time, adding ‘God and history will not forgive what you are doing to the party’.