New Delhi: Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan are in no mood to relent even as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he would be happy if the dissident AAP leaders return to the party.

While lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Friday called Arvind Kejriwal a "hypocrite and shameless", Yadav today said he and Bhushan were thrown out of AAP by the Delhi CM.

“It does not befit such a leader to lie about facts,” Yadav told news agency ANI.

Reacting strongly to Kejriwal`s statement, Bhushan had yesterday tweeted:

After abusing 'Sale, Kamine' and orchestrating a physical attack by his MLAs in the NC meeting, Kejriwal wants us back! Hypocrite Shameless! — Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) July 17, 2015

Yadav had also tweeted yesterday, saying he never left the path of honest politics, but Kejriwal deviated from the principles of the party.

Heard @ArvindKejriwal would be happy to have us back! But we never left the path of honest politics. He did. Does he want to come back? — Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) July 17, 2015

हम तो उसी रास्ते पर चले हैं, उन्ही आदर्शों पर कायम हैं। आप ही भटक गए @ArvindKejriwal आप तय करें: आदर्शों पर वापिस आना है या सत्ता प्यारी है? — Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) July 17, 2015

Kejriwal told a television channel on Friday: "If Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan come back, it will be good."

Both Yadav and Bhushan were expelled from the AAP in April for alleged anti-party activities following an acrimonious two-month-long war of words between the founding members of the party and Kejriwal backers.

Since then, Yadav and Bhushan have publicly accused Kejriwal of being intolerant of dissenting voices.

The two later launched a "Swaraj Abhiyaan" campaign to force the AAP to return to what they say were its foundational ideals.