AAP rift widens: Arvind Kejriwal is a liar, says Vinod Kumar Binny

After party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny accused the Aam Aadmi Party of failing to live up to its promises, party leader Arvind Kejriwal hinted that the party MLA’s outburst may be linked to being denied a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Binny in turn has called the AAP chief a liar. “First he had come to me seeking a ministerial post, and we rejected the demand.” “After that he said ‘I will contest the Lok Sabha elections’. He had come to my house to seek a Lok Sabha ticket. The party has decided that no sitting MLA will get a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections,” Kejriwal told reporters today. The Delhi Chief Minister added that there was a meeting of all 70 candidates who contested the Delhi polls but the MLA did not raise a single point in the meeting. “I do not know what his intentions are and I do not even want to get into them. We are the most sensitive government towards resolving issues. We welcome criticism, be it from the public, media or BJP,” he said. [caption id=“attachment_1341335” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Kejriwal has brushed aside the criticism from the MLA. PTI[/caption] The AAP party chief also questioned the timing of Binny’s public outburst and said that he could have brought up the matter during a meeting of elected representatives of the party yesterday. However, Binny accused Kejriwal of lying about him having sought a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections. “If Arvind-bhai has said this then it’s an unfortunate thing and no one is a bigger liar than him. There was no talk of a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections,” Binny told ANI. He also said that he had never even had any interest in being an MLA and had joined the AAP purely to battle corruption. “I will hold a press conference tomorrow to answer all your queries. After tomorrow’s meet, you will not have any more doubts”, he told journalists clamouring to know the reason behind his very public disgruntlement with the newly elected Delhi government. “In the first MLA list, my name was there in it. I myself asked the party to remove my name from the list. I am only concerned with the issues, not in becoming a MLA,” Binny told CNN-IBN Binny a former Congress party activist who joined the AAP, said that he was unhappy that the party had been unable to fulfil its promises to the Delhi electorate and has said he will hold a press conference on the matter tomorrow. “There is a lot of difference between what AAP promised and how the government is now working. I will divulge all these things in a press conference tomorrow to ensure accountability and transparency in the party,” the Laxmi Nagar MLA told reporters. With inputs from PTI