New Delhi, Oct 29 (PTI) In a setback to the Congress, the son and daughter-in-law of its veteran Delhi unit chief and former five-time Seelampur MLA Mateen Ahmed joined AAP on Tuesday.
The event, nonetheless, may need precipitated some consternation within the ruling celebration, whose Seelampur MLA Abdul Rahman resigned as president of its minority cell.
AAP introduced in a post on X that Congress chief Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed and his spouse Shagufta Chaudhary joined the celebration after assembly former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who can be its convenor.
Shagufta Chaudhary is a councillor within the Municipal Company of Delhi.
AAP insiders mentioned there was hypothesis that the celebration would possibly drop Abdul Rahman from Seelampur and exchange him with Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed.
Later, Abdul Rahman introduced his resignation as president of AAP’s minority cell.
He mentioned in a put up on X, “Have taken this determination as a consequence of rising ideological distance. Hope the celebration and supporters will perceive this step by me.” The Seelampur MLA, nonetheless, instructed PTI that he was not indignant with the celebration and his determination to resign was as a consequence of his rising household tasks.
“It is good that the AAP household is rising,” he instructed PTI after Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed’s becoming a member of.
Requested about his put up on X, he mentioned “ideological variations” in a democratic political arrange weren’t “unusual”.
“I’m not indignant with the celebration. The factor is I’ve tasks of marrying off my daughters and I’m the one working member. It was changing into troublesome for me to dedicate time to the minority cell and I had already knowledgeable celebration leaders about it,” he mentioned.
Mateen Ahmed was elected to the Delhi Meeting from the Seelampur constituency in northeast Delhi 5 consecutive instances.
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