Nearly 350 AAP volunteers and leaders from Maharashtra quit on Monday in protest against they claimed was a “murder of democracy”.

The resignations came in support of expelled leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav.

This figure would go up when we will start to sensitise everyone about democracy being murdered in AAP.
– Maruti Bhapkar, Former member of Maharashtra AAP

Bhapkar led the workers in the mass resignation programme held in Pune.

“We are now with Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan to strengthen their hands to afloat the concept of Swaraj throughout the country in true sense,” he added.

“You can think about the insensitivity of so-called leader Arvind Kejriwal that a farmer died before his eyes and he kept on his political speech,” Bhapkar said.

Manav Kamble, another former senior leader from AAP, has also joined hands with Bhapkar.

However, a senior AAP leader downplayed the resignations and said that this is not going to affect the party in anyway.

“Only a handful of party workers are leaving the party and that comprises no senior leaders or workers. So I don’t think that they would leave any impact on the party,” said Ravi Srivastava, member of State Executive Committee.

Subhash Ware, head of AAP unit of Maharashtra, could not be contacted as he was convening a meeting of district workers of Ahmednagar on Monday.

(With inputs from PTI)