Bhushan brushes off Marlena’s remark
9 April 2015 4:51 AM IST
Senior lawyer and AAP dissident leader Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday, thrust aside the criticism by former AAP spokesperson Atishi Marlena about him backing out of the reconciliatory talk with the Arvind Kejriwal camp, on his father Shanti Bhushan’s insistence. He said that the negotiations collapsed due to “trust deficit”.
In a letter to a section of AAP leaders, Marlena, a Rhodes scholar, who was close to the rebel camp, suggested that both sides were nearing truce but the talks broke down at the final phase as the senior Bhushan said “no” to any reconciliation with Kejriwal. “It is not correct to say that negotiations broke down because of my father Shanti Bhushan. The talks failed as there was trust deficit,” said Bhushan, when asked about Marlena’s letter.
Marlena, who was removed as AAP Spokesperson along with several others including Yogendra Yadav, said that Bhushan backed out because of his father’s red flag and not on the grounds of any principle. However, both Bhushan and Yadav had been maintaining that Kejriwal was determined to remove them from the National Executive and the talks were being continued just to project a positive image of himself before volunteers.
In a letter to a section of AAP leaders, Marlena, a Rhodes scholar, who was close to the rebel camp, suggested that both sides were nearing truce but the talks broke down at the final phase as the senior Bhushan said “no” to any reconciliation with Kejriwal. “It is not correct to say that negotiations broke down because of my father Shanti Bhushan. The talks failed as there was trust deficit,” said Bhushan, when asked about Marlena’s letter.
Marlena, who was removed as AAP Spokesperson along with several others including Yogendra Yadav, said that Bhushan backed out because of his father’s red flag and not on the grounds of any principle. However, both Bhushan and Yadav had been maintaining that Kejriwal was determined to remove them from the National Executive and the talks were being continued just to project a positive image of himself before volunteers.
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