Insulted' Alka Lamba skips Kejriwal roadshow
In a tweet, Lamba vented her anger and claimed she was asked to walk behind Mr Kejriwal's car while other MLAs were with him in the car.
New Delhi: AAP MLA Alka Lamba, who is dissatisfied with the party’s behaviour and attitude towards her, said she skipped the roadshow of party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in Chandni Chowk on Wednesday as she was “insulted” by her party.
In a tweet, Ms Lamba vented her anger and claimed she was asked to walk behind Mr Kejriwal’s car while other MLAs were with him in the car.
“AAP candidate Pankaj (Gupta) ji invited me for the CM’s roadshow. I was ready. Then another message was sent that I would not be present with Kejriwal in his car but would have to walk behind his car while other MLAs would be present with him. I cannot stand this and I decided not to participate in the roadshow,” she said in a tweet.
Mr Kejriwal held the roadshow in Chandni Chowk on Tuesday with AAP candidate (Chandni Chowk) Pankaj Gupta. It saw the participation of a large number of supporters.
Incidentally, Ms Lamba has been at odds with AAP for quite sometime now.
Earlier last month, Ms Lamba engaged in a bitter Twitter spat with AAP MLA (Greater Kailash) Saurabh Bharadwaj, who had taunted her to resign from the party.
Following the spat, Ms Lamba addressed a large crowd outside Jama Masjid and said the party was repeatedly demanding her resignation.
Ms Lamba hit a rough patch with AAP over its decision to pass a resolution to revoke Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna. She had raised objections to the party’s resolution.
Ms Lamba had alleged that the party leadership was “weakening” her and added that she was being accused of attempting to switch over to Congress.
Ms Lamba won the Chandni Chowk Assembly seat in the 2013 Delhi elections. Before joining AAP, she was part of the Congress women’s wing.