Just days after Atishi Marlena was removed as the Aam Aadmi Party’s spokesperson, she seems to be humming a different tune.
While it was earlier believed that Marlena was sympathetic to the now ‘outcast’ duo Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, in a letter written to some senior AAP leaders, she has trained her guns squarely on Prashant Bhushan.
In her letter, as reported by The Times of India, Marlena suggests that the AAP leadership was close to arriving at a consensus. But Prashant Bhushan backed out, after his father Shanti Bhushan refused to agree to a resolution.
Marlena ‘discloses’ how AAP leader Sanjay Singh had been trying to arrive at a consensus:
.....unknown to the public and our volunteers, Sanjay Singh made a remarkable effort, leaving no stone unturned for everyone to come to an agreement... by the 26th (March), Sanjay bhai had succeeded in bringing a consensus that promised a collective apology from the leadership of the party, time-bound institutional changes under Prithvi’s leadership and six new, neutral and credible members in the national executive.
When I found out the final reason for the refusal of this agreement, I was appalled... The same Prashant Bhushan who can take on the strongest forces in this country did not agree to something in the larger interests of the party because his father said `no’, because Shanti Bhushan ji said he would leave the family home.
– Excerpts From Atishi Marlena Letter