Khabar Bureau
New Delhi:The truce in AamAadmi Party has collaped with Chief minister and AAP national convener ArvindKejriwal on Saturday sacking his Minister Kapil Mishra.While officially Deputy CM Manish Sisodiasaid that mismanagement in water supply and billing was the reason, Mishra, in a series of tweets, indicated that the real reason was his persistent demand for action in the tanker scam.

Claiming that he had met the CM over the delay in the tanker scam report, he said he had "explosive details" which he would make public on Sunday. Observers point out that Mishra's ouster was a fallout of the recent turmoil within the party, following its electoral losses. It came days after he had suggested that Kejriwal should focus on governance and let someone like Kumar Vishwas handle the job of the party's national convenor. He had also demanded that Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan, who had accused Vishwas of plotting against Kejriwal, should be thrown out of the party.

While the CM had reached out to Vishwas by appointing him in-charge of Rajasthan and indulged him by forcing Khan to quit the PAC and then suspending him from the party till an inquiry had been conducted, nobody gave the truce a long life. 

Najafgarh MLA KailashGahlot will replace Mishra. Also, the long vacant post of a minister, since Sultanpuri MLA Sandeep Kumar was removed, has gone to MLA RajendraGautam, who represents Seemapuri, a reserved constituency for SC. Both are first-time MLAs and lawyers. The portfolios have not yet been allocated and some reshuffling of work may happen in the coming days.

After Kejriwal's decision was announced, Kumar Vishwas reacted by tweeting: "I assure party workers and the country that we will continue to fight against corruption both inside and outside, no matter what the consequences. Bharat mataki jai". Interestingly, he also tweeted a couplet that translates as -- "If you are indeed the friend you claim to be, then why do you have a dagger in your hand; and if you are a rival, then how I am still alive." He also retweeted Mishra's tweet earlier in the day announcing he had written to ACB asking why no action had been taken against Sheila Dikshit in the tanker scam so far.

Even as Mishra claimed that he had no plans to leave the party, his rebellion was evident from his tweets aimed at the Kejriwal government. "I am the only minister with no corruption charges, no CBI inquiry against me. Kisi betirishteydaarko pad nahindiya. Sheila kabhrashtacharkhola." He was seen to be referring to the health and PWD minister, Satyendra Jain, who is facing a CBI inquiry and had appointed his architect daughter on an important committee on health and sent her to IIM Ahmedabad for a course meant for hospital administrators. Also, Kejriwal had come under fire over the appointment of NikunjGarg as OSD to Jain. Garg was said to be a distant relative of Kejriwal.