Everyone's invited

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) "rebel" faction spearheaded by Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, who held a "Swaraj Samwad" on the outskirts of the capital, made no attempts to mask their differences with the AAP leadership. In fact, while sending out a formal invitation to the media, the group stated in unambiguous terms that "media is welcome to be inside the venue at all points of time; media people are allowed to be an eyewitness to the Swaraj Samwad meeting" and that "attendees will be allowed to take their pens, mobile phones and cameras inside the meeting venue". That was an obvious dig at an earlier AAP National Council meet where the press was not allowed and party members were barred from carrying their pens. It was the same gathering that decided that Yadav and Bhushan would be expelled from AAP's National Executive.