Alka Lamba removed again from AAP WhatsApp group

New Delhi: Alka Lamba has been once again removed from the party’s MLA WhatsApp group, which includes party chief Arvind Kejriwal.

Ms Lamba claimed that she was removed from the group after praising Naveen Patnaik for winning a fifth term as the chief minister of Odisha, a move which she said did not go down well with the AAP leadership.

Sharing screenshots of the WhatsApp group on Twitter, which purportedly shows that she was removed by AAP’s Northeast Delhi candidate Dilip Pandey, she lashed out at Mr Kejriwal and asked why she was being held responsible for the party’s crushing loss in the Lok Sabha elections. Mr Pandey did not respond on the matter.

Hinting at Mr Kejriwal, Ms Lamba said action should be taken against those who took all the decisions sitting in a closed room. “I have always been telling the party what you (Kejriwal) are telling them now. I am sometimes added to the group, sometimes removed. It would have been better if a meeting was held to introspect, look at the shortcomings, and move ahead,” she said.

AAP suffered a crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls and lost on all seven seats in Delhi with a margin of lakhs of votes.

This is the second time that Ms Lamba has been dropped from the group. She was earlier removed in December last year when she raised objection to the party’s resolution to revoke Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna.

AAP review meet today

Chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal will hold a meeting with AAP workers on Sunday to review party performance in Lok Sabha polls. He will interact with party leaders, MLAs, and volunteers at a closed-door meeting to discuss strategy for Delhi Assembly elections scheduled next year.

AAP Delhi in-charge Gopal Rai said that the party will focus more on works in Delhi, including water, electricity, CCTV, doorstep delivery of service and the government will fasten the pace of works.

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