The News Minute | June 5, 2014 | 9.09 pm IST
News of Anjali Damania, the Aam Aadmi Party leader who took on Nitin Gadkari and the party's Maharashtra State Secretary quitting from the party made headlines on Thursday morning, but by Thursday evening she was back in the party.
"Dear colleagues, with a heavy heart, I am ending my association with AAP," she had said in her resignation message to top AAP office bearers.
"My greatest regards for Arvind (Kejriwal), who is like an elder brother. All I want to request is that please do not have any conspiracy theories over my exit," Damania said. The AAP state convenor added she had never compromised her values and would never do so.
"I request the media to respect my privacy," she said, while her phone remained switched off.
A former crusader against corruption in high places, Damania said she had nothing more to add except that she cared a lot for AAP and expressed her best wishes for it. Senior AAP leader Mayank Gandhi's office in Mumbai confirmed the developments but declined to comment on the matter.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the AAP had put up candidates in all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state, but the party was wiped out. Many of its prominent and high-profile candidates like Damania, Gandhi, Medha Patkar and Vijay Pandhare, among others, lost.
But with other leaders including Mayank Gandhi persuading her, Anjali was quick to take back her resignation. What was her part of the bargain we wonder!