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Press Trust of India | Mumbai | June 5, 2014 2:28 pm
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Activist-turned-politician and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader from
Maharashtra, Anjali Damani and State AAP secretary Preeti Menon have
resigned from the party, ahead of the State Assembly elections.
Dear colleagues, with a heavy heart, I am ending my association with
AAP, Damania said in a letter addressed to AAP colleagues, issued late
on Wednesday evening. Damania, who unsuccessfully contested the
recent Lok Sabha elections against BJP leader Nitin Gadkari from
Nagpur, said.
My greatest regards for Arvind (Kejriwal), who is like an elder brother.
All I want to request is that please do not have conspiracy theories over
my exit.
The state party convener said she will never compromise on her values.
I have never and will never in future compromise on my values. I
request the media to respect my privacy, the 45-year-old leader said.
Damania, a crusader against corruption, refused to state any reasons
on her sudden decision to quit the party, and said she only wished the
best for AAP.
Kindly excuse me, I do not wish to state anything except that I care a lot
for my party and my best wishes are always with it, she said.

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Reacting to the exit of the two AAP leaders, Mayank Gandhi said that
lack of communication at various levels and complaints against AAP
Anjali Damania, who took on Nitin Gadkari,
quits Aam Aadmi Party
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Maharashtra AAP
member Anjali
Damania and Preeti
Sharma Menon
have tendered their
resignation.
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committee members by party workers pushed Damania into tendering
her resignation.
Minor organisational issues like complaints against the behaviour of
committee members by AAP workers and lack of communication at
various levels were irritating Anjali (Damania) and Preeti (Menon). They
could not focus on the major reasons for which they had joined politics.
Hence, she decided to quit, Gandhi said.
We have been able to convince her that a structure will be created for
organisational issues and she should focus on what she is good at
(taking up corruption-related issues). She (Damania) intends to meet all
volunteers this evening to exhort them to refocus on our original goals of
systemic change, Gandhi added.
Damania stood at the fourth position from Nagpur Lok Sabha seat
during the recent election by securing 69,081 votes. Gadkari won from
the seat, with 5,87,767 votes to his credit, by defeating seven-term MP
Vilas Muttemwar of Congress.
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