CALGARY—A Twitter post late Monday claiming a mass exodus from a United Conservative constituency association in Calgary suggested some in the party’s base were starting to question Jason Kenney’s leadership.

However, whether or not the people who reportedly quit are actually part of the UCP’s Calgary-North East constituency association has become a matter of dispute between them and the party. An internal list obtained by Star Calgary says they weren’t — but at least one person says that’s a mistake.

The debate started when Aryan Sadat, a spokesperson for the alleged directors, posted a statement to Twitter and Facebook on Monday detailing the mass resignation. He later provided Star Calgary with form resignation letters signed by each of the 10 alleged directors voicing their concerns over the ongoing “kamikaze candidate” scandal embroiling Kenney during his 2017 run for the party’s leadership, as well as concerns over his promised grassroots guarantee.

Sadat said he notified the UCP of the resignations in an email. He also gave Star Calgary a video that shows some of the members mentioned being named to the board. But it’s not clear when it was shot, and at no point does the speaker in the video explicitly say why he’s reciting the names.

A UCP spokesperson told Star Calgary that seven of the 10 names put forward weren’t directors, and some weren’t even card-carrying members of the UCP.

She said Sadat has “no standing with the party or constituency association,” and while he’d considered running as a UCP nominee last summer, he was told he was unlikely to pass the party’s screening process.

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In addition, an internal association document obtained by Star Calgary lists the 21 accredited board members as of their annual general meeting on Jan. 23 — and none of the directors who allegedly quit are on it.

However, at least four of the board members are on a second internal document obtained by Star Calgary that was sent to nine board members on Jan. 17. According to the letter, the recipients hadn’t responded to calls, emails or texts, and it asked them to respond if they wanted to remain on the board.

One of the people on that list is Sajid Majeed, who said he once served as the association’s president, and was among the people who quit this week.

He said he was taken off the list of board members by mistake, and never received the letter, despite getting recent UCP emails.

“Every time you make a membership, you have to provide the email,” Majeed said. “They have my email. I didn’t receive any.”

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The UCP said Tuesday that Majeed “was not, and is not a member of the board.” However, Majeed said he is present in the video supplied to Star Calgary. He said it was shot on Nov. 3, 2018, when he was elected the association’s president.

Constituency organizations typically handle fundraising as well as campaign contributions on behalf of a particular party or MLA.

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