Out of favour Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan on Monday launched the fiercest attack on party’s disciplinary committee chief Ashish Khetan, alleging he wrote an article for news magazine Tehelka in favour of ESSAR group that was embroiled in 2G scam probe. He alleged that Tehelka had got a hefty amount for ‘Think Fest’, a program promoted by the magazine, in return of the article published in 2011.He made these allegations in his response to the show cause notice issued by the disciplinary committee on organising a convention for dissident leaders.In the article titled ‘The Madness of CBI’s method’, he alleged, Khetan had also written in favour of Salman Khurshid, who was fire-fighting charges of graft levelled against him and his wife Louis Khurshid.In the letter, Bhushan also mentioned an internal mail chain initiated after his “paid news” surfaced. He claimed ESSAR’s corporate communication head Nancy Jain had admitted to have paid ‘Tehelka’ for the article.“People who levelled allegations against us are the members of committee who'll look into this,” he said.Watch: Ashish Khetan had written in favour of ESSAR; Tehelka was paid for same, alleges Prashant Bhushan When you remove NE (National Executive) member or even a Lokpal for merely questioning the illegal and unjustifiable actions of the convener or those who are in control of the party, when you label any dissenter as traitor and charge him with anti-party activities, when you instil fear among the members of the party for merely questioning the party moving away from its founding principles, it does remind one of a Stalinist purge," stated Bhushan in his reply to the show cause notice of the party.He further said that expressing a different opinion cannot be treated as a violation of the code of conduct. "Mere expression of a difference of opinion should not be considered as violation of the code of conduct unless it violates the objectives of the party. You now want to become judges of your own cause," he said. ( Read Tehelka's article Replying to AAP Secretary Pankaj Gupta, Bhushan wrote: "It is indeed remarkable and ironic that you along with Ashish Khetan and Dinesh Vaghela have sent this notice to us, styling yourself as the 'National Disciplinary Committee'. I am not aware as to who has constituted this as the National Disciplinary Committee and when and how this was done."Click: Giriraj regrets remark against Sonia