New Delhi : In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi, 13 councillors have resigned from the party and announced the formation of a separate faction. The councillors, under the leadership of Goel, announced a new party called Indraprastha Vikas Party.
Before the last municipal elections, these leaders had left Congress to join the Aam Aadmi Party. Goel, who has served as a municipal councillor for 25 years, switched to the AAP from Congress in 2021. The development comes days after the BJP reclaimed control of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) following its win in the civic polls. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had boycotted the election.
The fresh jolt to the party in Delhi comes after it was routed by the BJP in the Assembly polls earlier this year. To stem the discontent in the party, the AAP carried out an organisational shake-up in March, appointing former minister Saurabh Bharadwaj as the new president of its Delhi unit.
Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia was given charge of Punjab, which goes to the polls in two years. Gopal Rai has been made AAP’s in-charge of Gujarat, while AAP’s national general secretary Sandeep Pathak has been given responsibility as the special in-charge of Chhattisgarh.
