Yogendra Yadav, who predicted many a political event, couldn’t predict his own fall from grace and Prashanth Bhushan, who argued many a case with aplomb, failed to win over his colleagues in Aam Admi Party.

Both the founder-members of AAP were expelled from the nascent party’s national council.

AAP's crucial National Council meet began amid high-drama and chaos. Ahead of the meeting, Yadav sat on dharna outside the venue for around 20 minutes alleging that anti-Kejriwal group members were not being allowed inside the meeting. The National Council, the third most important body of AAP, has over 350 members. The meeting will also be attended by AAP MLAs and MPs.

Hours before the meeting, Yadav made public a letter, written by AAP's internal Lokpal Ramdas to the party leadership, in which the former Navy Chief expressed surprise over the party asking him not to attend the meet to avoid confrontation. In the letter, Ramdas cited the SMS he received from AAP general secretary Pankaj Gupta.

Heavy contingents of police and RAF have been deployed in the vicinity of the resort, where NC members were allowed inside after registering at a counter. Members who failed to show identification, mobile number, and SMS invite were denied entry.

“They can remove us from the National Executive but not from the party. If we have to be removed from the party, the matter has to be referred to the Lokpal or the disciplinary committee,” Prashant Bhushan said. Yadav termed his ouster as a murder of democracy.

This step has shown Kejriwal’s supremacy in the party’s organizational network.