“As many as 350 volunteers and leaders resigned from the AAP and this figure would go up when we will start to sensitise everyone about democracy being murdered in the AAP,” said Maruti Bhapkar, former state executive committee member of the AAP’s Maharashtra unit.
Bhapkar led the workers in the mass resignation programme held in Pune.
“We are now with Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan to strengthen their hands to afloat the concept of Swaraj throughout the country in the truest sense,” he added.
“You can think about the insensitivity of so-called leader Arvind Kejriwal that a farmer died before his eyes and he kept on his political speech,” Bhapkar said.
“Not only from local volunteers, but workers from Mumbai, Nashik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai etc had come to Pune to quit AAP,” he added.
Manav Kamble, another former senior leader from the AAP, has also joined hands with Bhapkar.
However, a senior AAP leader downplayed the resignations and said that this is not going to affect the party in anyway.
“Only a handful of party workers are leaving the party and that comprises no senior leaders or workers. So I don't think that they would leave any impact on the party,” said Ravi Srivastava, member of state executive committee.
Subhash Ware, head of the AAP’s Maharashtra unit, could not be contacted as he was convening a meeting of district workers of Ahmednagar.