Prashant Bhushan leaves for Delhi

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, March 3

Prashant Bhushan will attend the national executive meeting of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scheduled at Delhi tomorrow. He left Palampur today to attend the meeting. He was putting up here for the past two days and had earlier given indications that he would not attend the meeting.

Sources here said it was after the intervention of his father Shanti Bhushan and Aam Aadmi Party leaders that he agreed to return.

Shanti Bhushan has told his son and party leader Yogender Yadav to support Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sources at the Kumud Bhushan Society of Prashant Bhushan said.

In a letter written to the party’s national executive, Shanti said there should not be any rift in the party.

“I have decided to go back to Delhi and attend the meeting,” Prashant said while talking to mediapersons at the Gaggal Airport near Kangra today.

“I changed my mind since my friends and other party leaders have been continuously compelling me to do so,” he said. When contacted in the morning at his home in Kandwari village, he had said he would not be able to attend the meeting due to prior engagements.

“I had told the party to postpone the meeting since as I would not be able to attend it due to some prior engagements,” he had said.

Prashant had accused the party of being one person-centric. He had shot off a letter to the party leadership which became public on Monday. In his letter to AAP members, Prashant had sought transparency in the way funds were being spent which, he claimed, was being done in an arbitrary manner.

“The party now receives considerable donations. There is, however, no systematic planning on how these funds are to be spent. We do not have any empowered committee or decision-making system of deciding how the funds are to be spent,” Prashant maintained in the letter written to party leadership. He also accused Kejriwal of not letting state units of the party take decision regarding contesting elections.