Criticising Kejriwal for hugging RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad during Nitish Kumar's swearing-in ceremony in Patna, Bhushan said "it was a betrayal of the dreams of Anna Hazare."

Shanti Bhushan, one of the founder leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Sunday blasted party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal saying the Delhi chief minister was running the party like a khaap panchayat.

Criticising Kejriwal for hugging RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad during Nitish Kumar's swearing-in ceremony in Patna, Bhushan said "it was a betrayal of the dreams of Anna Hazare."

The dissident leader went on to accuse Kejriwal of running AAP like a dictator, an allegation directed at the Delhi CM often by many leaders of the party. Talking to reporters in Delhi, Bhushan also alleged that many of AAP ministers in Delhi were involved in corruption.

At the swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar as Bihar chief minister in Patna on Friday, Kejriwal and Lalu shared a hug on the dais. Lalu is currently barred from contesting elections following his conviction in a fodder scam case.

While Kejriwal had been facing intense criticism for sharing stage with Lalu, his supporters argued that it was the former Bihar CM who had "forcibly" hugged Kejriwal.

They defended the "friendly gesture" between the two, saying that it was nothing but a "political courtesy" at an event that also doubled as a show of strength by anti-BJP parties.

On Saturday, Kejriwal's former colleague and Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav had called the hug a "shameful" act. Yadav, who was expelled from the AAP earlier this year, said it was not mere hugging, but the defeat of ideals to form a bloc against the BJP. "Political capital of the movement sold to symbols of political corruption. Ashamed!" he wrote on his Facebook page.