Ashish Khetan leaves from AAP, say party sources

New Delhi, Aug 22 Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashish Khetan has quit the party, AAP sources said today, a week after another leader, Ashutosh, declared his resignation.

Khetan, who did not deny the resignation, said he was not engaged with "active politics issues right now" and was not interested in rumours.

As per sources in the party, Khetan had sent his resignation to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on August 15.

It was the day Ashutosh had reported his resignation from the party.

The two renunciations are yet to be acknowledged by Kejriwal, party insiders said.

"I had resigned from DDC in April, to join the legal profession. That is all. Not interested in rumours," Khaitan tweeted, referring to the Delhi Dialog and Development Commission, an advisory body of the Delhi government.

"I am completely focused on my lawful practice and not engaged with dynamic legislative issues right now. Rest is all extrapolation," he said in another tweet.

Khetan had surrendered as DDC bad habit director refering to "disappointment" because of the tussle between the Center and the AAP-drove government.

AAP sources guaranteed Khetan needed to challenge the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the New Delhi parliamentary seat that he had lost to BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi in 2014. In any case, his request was not being acknowledged by the leadership and he had been upset for some time.