AAP suspends ex-MLA Nitin Tyagi for 'anti-party' activities during LS polls

Former MLA Nitin Tyagi has claimed the action was taken against him for 'speaking the truth'.

The AAP on Friday suspended former MLA Nitin Tyagi from the party for alleged "anti-party" activities during the just concluded Lok Sabha polls.

In his response, Tyagi claimed the action was taken against him for "speaking the truth".

In a communication to Tyagi, AAP Delhi state convener Gopal Rai said, "It has come to our notice that you have been involved in anti-party activities during the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The party has taken a decision to suspend you from its primary membership pending disciplinary proceedings."

Responding to the news, Tyagi wondered if "speaking the truth in the party has become an anti-party thing?"

Sharing Rai's letter on X, Tyagi said what is anti-party is "destroying its basic ideals".

"It is anti-party to ask for votes for those against whom people had chosen you," he said tagging Rai, in an apparent reference to AAP-Congress alliance in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls.