AAP suspends but Ashutosh defends Sandeep Kumar

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) today suspended its MLA and former minister Sandeep Kumar from primary membership in connection with the objectionable CD row. Mr Kumar, who represents Sultanpur Majra constituency and was social welfare minister in the Delhi government, was sacked by state Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on August 31 after surfacing of an objectionable CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with a woman, sources in the party said. “Received ‘objectionable’ CD of minister Sandeep Kr. AAP stands for propriety in public life. That can’t be compromised. Removing him from Cabinet wid immediate effect,’’ Mr Kejriwal had tweeted.

Singing a different tune other than his party Chief Arvind Kejriwal, journalist-turned Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Ashutosh today come out in the defence of sacked Minister Sandeep Kumar, whose objectionable CD got leaked, wondering why he was being punished.

''Ashutosh's views on sex scandal are diametrically opposite to the Delhi CM,'' said Kumar.
In a blog titled 'The Sex Was Consensual, Private Act. Why AAP Punished Its Man,' Ashutosh held that video clearly establishes that both individuals knew each other and consented to sex and it doesn’t amount to any crime. (UNI)