Rebel Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav on Thursday said that he could forsee himself being thrown out of the party by its current leadership, as traditional politics has replaced the alternative kind of transparent and democratic politics that he and others of his ilk had envisioned and continued to espouse.
"AAP was founded to bring an alternative to traditional politics, but today is being infected by individualism, greed for power, centralized authority and other ills," Yadav said here while on a visit to muster support for the proposed convention of rebel volunteers 'Swaraj Samwad' in Gurgaon on April 14.
After addressing his supporters, Yadav told media here that he has received an overwhelming response from across the country.
He said activists like Medha Patkar, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, S P Udayakumar and Shanti Bhushan, besides 70 lok sabha candidates of AAP have confirmed that they will attend the April 14 convention.
"So far, 3591 AAP members and volunteers have registered for the convention, of which, 661 are from UP," he said.
He said anyone was welcome to attend the event, including Delhi Chief Minister and bete noir Arvind Kejriwal.
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He, however, rejected suggestions that he was in the process of forming a new party.
"Arvind (Kejriwal) bhai was and is national convener of the party, what we want is to keep the 'soul' of the organization alive by reminding the top brass about the founding principles of AAP," he said.
Yadav said that the 'Swaraj Samwad' was being held on Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar's birth anniversary not to break AAP, but to have a 'samwad' (discussion) to keep alive the principal of 'swaraj' (power to the people) which made AAP different from others. Discussion never breaks anything but joins it. However, the manner in which the March 28 meeting was conducted using bouncers and ouster of leaders without issuing show cause notice or waiting for their replies was an attempt to break the party," he said.
Nearly 200 people took part in the Lucknow meeting.
Yadav had addressed a similar meeting on April 7 in Chandigarh attended by over 700 volunteers. On Friday, he will hold a meeting in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, the AAP has already warned of strict action against those attending the meetings organized by Yadav and Bhushan. It has already suspended UP leaders Rakesh Sinha and Vishal Sharma Lathe for openly coming out in support of Yadav and Bhushan.