Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Shanti Bhushan on Saturday avoided commenting on the decision to remove Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the national executive.
"I will not say anything," he said.
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, who has been ousted from the party's national executive along with Prashant Bhushan, earlier in the day said it was a death of democracy in the national council meet.
"I say it with sadness that democracy has been murdered at the AAP national council meet today. Violence took place at the meet. One of our colleagues was kicked and dragged out of the meet by bouncers," Yadav said.
The AAP national council also removed Ajith Jha and Professor Anand Kumar from the national executive.
Earlier on Friday, Bhushan and Yadav had hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of stifling internal democracy and adopting unfair means to capture power.
They alleged that any issue raised by them was being projected as questioning Kejriwal's leadership and attempts to remove him from the post of AAP's national convener.
The tussle got murkier later yesterday after a secretly-taped phone conversation was leaked in which the AAP chief is heard abusing Bhushan and Yadav and threatening to exit the party with 67 Delhi MLAs.
