Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba Tweets ‘Good Bye’ To AAP, Expected To Rejoin Congress

After having differences with the party leadership for months, Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today (6 September), Hindustan Times reports.

Lamba has resigned from the primary membership of the party with a tweet saying ‘time to say good bye’. In her tweet she also said, “the past 6 years journey was a great learning for me. Thanks to all.”

Her decision comes days after her meeting with the Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss ‘current affairs’. She is now believed to go back to the Congress party, which she had left in December 2014 to join the AAP.

The 43-year-old leader had indulged in social media arguments with party leaders on several occasions, and had also accused the party of disrespecting her.

She had also sought accountability from Delhi Chief Minister and party chief Arvind Kejriwal post the party suffered a blow in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, post which she had been removed from the official WhatsApp groups of AAP lawmakers.

Her dispute with the party began after she objected the Delhi government’s move to pass a resolution to withdraw former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna for his remarks on the infamous 1984 massacre of Sikhs.

Lamba started her political career in 1994 as a student leader, and was appointed the general secretary of All India Mahila Congress in 2002. In 2015, she reached the state assembly defeating Suman Kumar Gupta of the BJP from the Chandni Chowk constituency.