{"id":86603,"date":"2022-05-18T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86603"},"modified":"2022-05-18T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:59:45","slug":"ajay-kothiyal-arvind-kejriwals-candidate-for-uttarakhands-2022-assembly-polls-resigns-from-the-aap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/ajay-kothiyal-arvind-kejriwals-candidate-for-uttarakhands-2022-assembly-polls-resigns-from-the-aap\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Kothiyal, Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s candidate for Uttarakhand&#8217;s 2022 assembly polls, resigns from the AAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday (May 18, 2022), the day before the party&#8217;s election as chief minister in Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A soft copy of the former army officer&#8217;s resignation letter was posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party from April 19, 2021, to May 18, 2022. In his letter to AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he said, &#8220;I am resigning on May 18 in consideration of the feelings of ex-soldiers, ex-paramilitary personnel, elders, women, youth, and intellectuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kothiyal lost his refundable deposit from the Gangotri assembly seat, notably. He was angered by the way he was treated by the AAP following the assembly poll debacle in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A party meeting to review its performance in Uttarakhand held recently in New Delhi also did not include him, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kejriwal had then said Kothiyal&#8217;s selection as his party&#8217;s chief ministerial candidate was based on feedback from people in the state when announcing the former army officer as the party&#8217;s CM candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite fielding candidates for all 70 seats in the state elections, the AAP was unable to open its bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday (May 18, 2022), the day before the party&#8217;s election as chief minister in Uttarakhand. A soft copy of the former army officer&#8217;s resignation letter was posted on Twitter. I was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party from April 19, 2021, to May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[209,210,46],"class_list":["post-86603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ajay","tag-kothiyal","tag-uttrakhand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86605,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86603\/revisions\/86605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}