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AAP overhaul is Arvind Kejriwal's cure for infighting, admits mistakes

New Delhi: Battling severe criticism, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal today announced steps to significantly overhaul the party from the grassroots to the national level and attempted to pacify the dissidents by admitting that he too


Yadav had quit from AAP Political Affairs Committee after charging Kejriwal with “falling prey to personality cult”, while Ilmi had resigned from the party saying a coterie surrounding the former chief minister was running the party.

“It's time to restructure the party. The entire party will be reconstituted from booth to national level. New people will be picked. We will go to village and will bring more people in the party. We'll call it ‘Mission Vistar',” Kejriwal said.

He said AAP performed well in Lok Sabha elections, though it won only four seats.

“Has it ever happened that a small young party won four seats in its first election. Despite a (Modi) wave, we did well,” he said.

AAP had fielded over 430 candidates in LS polls.

Kejriwal said Congress was completely rejected by people in the Lok sabha polls while AAP had given hope for an alternative.