Thirteen AAP councillors in Delhi resign, announce new party

Thirteen Aam Aadmi Party councillors in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi resigned from the party on Saturday and announced a new political outfit named the Indraprastha Vikas Party, reported The Indian Express.

With this, the Aam Aadmi Party’s tally in the municipal corporation has dropped to 100, while the Bharatiya Janata Party hold 117 seats. The Congress has eight councillors.

In a letter, the councillors who resigned told the Aam Aadmi Party leadership that they took the decision “due to failure to fulfil the promises made to the public”, according to The Indian Express.

Moralband councillor Hemanchand Goyal, who is set to lead the Indraprastha Vikas Party as an independent bloc within the municipal body, told PTI that no development work had taken place in the two and a half years since they were elected.

“The party was too busy with internal conflicts and blame games,” Goyal told the news agency. “We repeatedly raised our concerns with the leadership, but no one listened.”

One of the most notable leaders who defected from the Aam Aadmi Party is Mukesh Goel, who was the former leader of the House in the municipal corporation. He had joined AAP ahead of the 2022 civic elections. Under Goel’s leadership, many leaders had...

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