Reports are now emerging that the AAP reconciliation might just be an attempt to hide the resurgence of rebellion by Yadav and Bhushan.

Even as AAP leaders claim the rift within the party has been bridged with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal meeting leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, and the party deciding to go national, reports are now emerging that this reconciliation might just be an attempt to hide a fresh offensive by the two leaders.

A report in Hindustan Times said that Yadav and Bhushan have reiterated their demands for greater transparency and autonomy to state units, better volunteer engagement, action for lapses and regularisation of party panels in the latest letter. In public however, they have denied writing such a letter.

The demand by Yadav and Bhushan has found supporters in the party and the party could be headed for a showdown at the national council meet on 28 March, which will be attended by around 300 members from across the country .

The report said that a new political row could erupt at the meeting since Yadav enjoys support of the volunteers from outside Delhi while Kejriwal is supported by most of the volunteers in Delhi, according to HT. Voting at the national council meet would really be an uneasy test of the support to Kejriwal and could threaten to break the recently made truce among the party leaders.

On 4 March, Yadav and Bhushan had been sacked from the PAC in a national executive meet, the party’s highest decision-making body. However, the removal was anything but smooth. Out of the 21 national executive members, only 11 had voted in favour of Yadav and Bhushan's ouster. Arvind Kejriwal was not present at the meeting while Mayank Gandhi abstained from voting.

In the third attempt in three days to sort out contentious issues between dissident leader Yadav and Kejriwal-led AAP, members from both the camps held a marathon meeting in south Delhi on Wednesday, reported PTI.

Prashant Bhushan, however, was not present at the meeting.

Apart from the issues related to the inner party democracy, transparency in the organisation, preparing an active list of volunteers at the earliest, identifying states the party will contest polls in and appropriate role of Yadav and his future in the party were also discussed.

While a decision was taken to prepare an active list of the party volunteers, Yadav’s camp insisted that the list should be out in a month while the Kejriwal camp said it would at least take three months to do so.

"It is going good so far. Several issues were discussed including the role of Yogendra Yadav in the party. Now that he is out of PAC, an appropriate responsibility would be given to him, but a final call would be taken only by the PAC," said a party source.

Yadav on Wednesday had also welcomed the party's decision for national expansion and had said that it will further strengthen the party.

"I am happy to know about this. I had strong faith that it (conflict) would finally end on a positive note. Initially, the churning had some poison, but I had immense faith that finally, it would conclude with 'amrit'," Yadav had told reporters on the sidelines of a farmers' event at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.

(With inputs from PTI)