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AAP’s Gunvant Vasava died days after he fell at a resort in Maharashtra, where the party had sent its winning candidates amid fears of horse trading

Till the evening before the rebellion, the number cruncher seen as close to the AAP chief – and now allegedly in AAP’s crosshairs – was conferring with him how to keep straying MPs back

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has announced that he would meet President Droupadi Murmu next week to seek the recall of seven Rajya Sabha MPs who had left AAP to “merge” with the BJP.

A total of 483 candidates contested on 120 seats in 30 wards of Surat Municipal Corporation, out of which 120 were from the BJP, 117 from Congress, 111 from AAP and other smaller parties and Independents.

The meeting is expected to be attended by Mann, Punjab affairs in-charge Manish Sisodia and state party chief Aman Arora, while AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is likely to join virtually.

Even before AAP crisis, Opposition camp has repeatedly accused BJP of conducting “Operation Lotus” to split their parties and form coalition govts with breakaway groups in state after state

Seen as a feat for AAP in Gujarat, the then Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal visited Surat and congratulated all the winners from his party.