Social activist Medha Patkar, on Saturday, resigned from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party. Earlier, senior AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were removed from the National Executive of the party.

A proposal to remove them was moved at the National Council meeting and was adopted with majority. Mr. Yadav’s supporters Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha were also removed from the National Executive.

Top AAP leaders who quit

Anjali Damania: Senior leader from Mumbai. Quits after accusing Kejriwal of “horse trading.”

Vinod Kumar Binny: Won in the Delhi Assembly elections in 2013 from Laxmi Nagar as AAP candidate but quit after being denied a ministerial berth. He was a candidate for the BJP in the Delhi Assembly polls 2015

Shazia Ilmi: Resigned in May 2014 after losing in the Lok Sabha elections and blamed the party for lack of inner-party democracy. She joined the BJP in January 2015, a few weeks before the Delhi Assembly election.

Captain G.R. Gopinath: The founder of Air Deccan resigned along with Ms. Ilmi citing growing differences with the leadership and criticising Arvind Kejriwal.

Madhu Bhaduri: One of the founding members of AAP, the former Indian ambassador to Portugal quit the party in February 2014 alleging mistreatment of the women leaders.

S.P. Udayakumar​: The anti-nuclear activist quit the party in October 2014 alleging the party leadership did not pay attention to the problems of the people in his region of south Tamil Nadu.

Ashok Agarwal: The educationist and child rights lawyer resigned in March 2014 alleging that the party worked like a “private limited company” and accusing it of elitism in the ticket distribution process for the Lok Sabha election.

Maulana Maqsood Ali Kazmi: An AAP’s National Council member at the time, he quit in April 2014 saying that the party was being hijacked by “four or five people who are calling the shots”.