AAP Sacks Yogendra, Prashant , Anand Kumar As Spokespersons, Announces New Panel

01 April, New Delhi

Aam Aadmi Party has sacked Yogendra Yadav as Chief spokesperson of the party and announced 20-member panel to interact with the media. AAP also removed Prashant Bhushan and Anand Kumar as spokespersons.

The removal came four days after they were expelled as National Executive members. Bhushan and Yadav were sacked from the party’s Political Affairs Committee of the party on the 4th of last month.

Atishi Marlena, who was one of the prominent spokespersons of the party during the election campaign, was also dropped.

The new panel of spokespersons include Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Ilyas Azmi, Pankaj Gupta, Ashutosh, Punjab MP Bhagwant Mann and Ashish Khetan. The party has appointed Preeti Sharma Menon as spokesperson in Maharashtra, Prithvi Reddy in Karnataka, Akshay Hunka in Madhya Pradesh and Nishikant Mohapatra in Odisha.