{"id":314891,"date":"2019-09-06T06:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314891"},"modified":"2019-09-06T06:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:24:46","slug":"time-to-say-goodbye-alka-lamba-resigns-from-aap-after-months-of-feud-with-top-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/time-to-say-goodbye-alka-lamba-resigns-from-aap-after-months-of-feud-with-top-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time to say goodbye&#8217;: Alka Lamba resigns from AAP after months of feud with top brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307394 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alka-lamba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/alka-lamba.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/alka-lamba-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/alka-lamba-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Alka Lamba on Friday quit the party, following several months of bitterness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She said past six years were a great learning experience for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe time has come to say &#8220;Good Bye&#8221; to #AAP and to resign from the primary membership of the Party. The past 6years journey was a great learning for me. Thanks to all,\u201d Alka Lamba said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another tweet, tagging Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Lamba said, \u201c@ArvindKejriwal Ji, your spokespersons asked me as per your desire, with the full arrogance that the Party will accept My resgination even on the Twitter. So pls Kindly accept My resgination from the primary membership of the &#8220;Aam Aadmi Party&#8221;, which is now a &#8220;Khas Aadmi Party\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier this week, Lamba had met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and tweeted a picture from her meeting with the Congress President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lamba&#8217;s decision to leave AAP came ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled to be held early next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She has been at odds with the AAP for some time now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lamba had been with the Congress for 20 years before she joined AAP in 2013 and won the Delhi election from Chandni Chowk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Alka Lamba on Friday quit the party, following several months of bitterness. She said past six years were a great learning experience for her. \u201cThe time has come to say &#8220;Good Bye&#8221; to #AAP and to resign from the primary membership of the Party. The past 6years journey was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":307394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[304,10370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314893,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314891\/revisions\/314893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}