A day before the Aam Aadmi Party's National Executive meeting, the rift within the party is reaching a new high. In yet another attempt to bring down party member Yogendra Yadav, loyalists of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have released a recorded conversation with a journalist who held an informal breakfast meeting with Yadav.

As reported by The Indian Express, it is being alleged by AAP that during the meeting, Yadav gave critical party information to the media. The conversation was supposed to be off the record but was recorded by secretely.

The allegations against Yadav were made by AAP's Delhi Secretary Dilip Pandey. Earlier too, Pandey had written a letter to the disciplinary committee alleging anti-party activities by Yadav.

As reported in The Indian Express, this recording was brought up at the heated National Executive meeting on February 26 and finds mention in Dilip Pandey's letter to the Disciplinary Committee.

Crisis in the party intensified after Prashant Bhushan, in a letter to the national executive last week, said that the "one person-centric" campaign was making the party look like other parties and called for more "swaraj" within the organisation.

Along with Yadav, he also gave a joint letter to the national executive and demanded activation of an ethics and grievance committee. Yadav added that although electoral politics requires a face, the party should make a conscious effort not to fall prey to personality cult.

"Within the organisation you have to ensure that we do not fall prey to personality cult. These are the things which we have to constantly struggle. It's not a special case that AAP has to struggle with. Its a real question of democratic procedure. I am happy that AAP is at least struggling with these questions and there are no easy answers," Yadav said.

He added that in a joint note to NE members in meeting last week, they had spelt out things which required immediate action and certain things which required long term action. "We need an ethics committee which would ensure that whenever ethical questions come up we don't look like any other party. We have set high bars for ourselves."

"Autonomy for state units and the third question was strengthening internal democracy procedures. These are constructive suggestions no one would disagree with. Even Lokpal has raised similar questions and we need to raise similar questions in the Indian politics," Yadav said.