For the third time in a row during the National Executive meeting on Sunday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) head Arvind Kejriwal was elected as the party’s national convener.
Earlier this year, the party’s constitution was amended to permit someone to keep a post more than twice. The constitution in advance stated that “no member will keep the identical post as a workplace-bearer for more than consecutive phrases of 3 years each”.
After the amendment, which was made in January 2021, the period of the term has been extended to five years and the bar on the wide variety of phrases for officer bearers has been lifted, sources stated. Kejriwal’s 2nd period as a national convener was to end in April 2019 however was prolonged for a year in 2018 in view of the Lok Sabha and Delhi Assembly elections.
The assembly of the council was then postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The subsequent assembly was held in January 2021, wherein the party constitution was amended. On Sunday, national secretary Pankaj Gupta, who has additionally served terms as a workplace bearer, was also re-elected to the post. MP ND Gupta has additionally been re-appointed as the party’s treasurer.
