Not quitting as AAP Lokpal: Ramdas
New Delhi: AAP’s internal Lokpal, Admiral (retd) L Ramdas, on Saturday said he will not quit the post even though he was asked not to attend the crucial National Council meeting for which he had travelled all the way from Maharashtra.
“I am neither quitting nor have I been asked to go. Winners never quit,” the former naval chief of staff said. Ramdas said he was asked by AAP national secretary Pankaj Gupta to not attend the meeting so as to “avoid confrontation”.
Gupta also said it was the “party’s internal affair” and that, “as indicated earlier, the term of Lokpal needed to be renewed in the next NE (National Executive meet)”, Ramdas added.
Ramdas said he was asked by AAP national secretary Pankaj Gupta to not attend the meeting so as to “avoid confrontation”.
He said Gupta also wrote that only MLAs and MPs have been invited to the meeting apart from authorised NC members and “no one else has been invited”.
“So (we), request you to not come to the meeting to avoid any confrontation,” he wrote.
Hours before the NC meeting today, Yogendra Yadav made public a letter written by Ramdas to the party leadership in which he expressed surprise over the party asking him not to attend the meet to “avoid confrontation”. Gupta’s messages were appended to that letter.
The direction to Ramdas came days after a section of AAP leaders expressed their displeasure over his continuance as the party’s ombudsman following his letter last month criticising the leadership.
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