There were reports before the MCD elections that Kumar Vishwas was considering to move to the BJP. Both Vishwas and Kejriwal denied the report. A few days after that, the poet released a video in which he made some critical observations on the party. Kejriwal somehow weathered that storm too as he said Kumar Vishwas was family and there was no bad blood between them. However, after the humiliating defeat in MCD polls, the rift has come out in the open. Kumar Vishwas is openly suggesting organisational changes, which some construed (including an AAP MLA) as a call to replace Kejriwal as party convenor. Kejriwal, in response, is still stuck with his previous line: Kumar Vishwas is his brother. The big question is: can Kejriwal firefight this crisis?
Something is not right in the Aam Aadmi Party. There is a growing discontent in party’s rank and file after the MCD poll debacle. But it seems the problem is old, which has festered now and has manifested itself after successive losses in Goa, Punjab and Delhi. An astute politician Arvind Kejriwal has sensed that his seat of power in AAP is rocking either way. The fate of the party completely banks on the approach Arvind Kejriwal takes to end the muted mutiny in the party. Would he take the approach of political purge or release the party from his iron grip?
