After Ashutosh, another journalist Ashish Khetan has also resigned from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Khetan sent the convenor of the party Arvind Kejriwal to the e-mail on August 15, citing private reasons. However, Kejriwal is still busy trying to persuade him not to leave. Sources say that Khetan, who is the vice-president of the Delhi Dialogue Commission, wants to contest the re-election from New Delhi Lok Sabha seat, while the party wants to bring a new face and that is why Khetan has resigned. 

But the sources of Khetan claim that he wants to go abroad for higher education of the law and that is why he had resigned. Kejriwal wants him to take leave from the party to study and to join the party's work after completion of studies. Party sources say that AAP had offered Rahul Mehra, senior lawyer of the Delhi Government, to get him from New Delhi Lok Sabha seat in place of Khetan. Before Mehra, Raghav Chadha was asked to make preparations to fight here, but he also preferred to fight south Delhi instead of New Delhi.

In the last elections, Khetan had won 2.9 lakh votes in New Delhi seat, but he lost by BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi by 1.6 lakh votes. Ajay Maken of Congress was at the third place with 1.82 lakh votes. Pankaj Gupta is preparing to fight in place of Ashutosh against Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan at Chandni Chowk.

Gagan Singh, who left the BJP before the last assembly elections, will be AAP candidate for the North West (safe) seat. If the people working in the field of education are ready to fight against East Delhi, then the East Delhi President Dilip Pandey will fight. In this case, the party is proving to be a headache to find candidates for West Delhi and New Delhi Lok Sabha seats. 

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