NEW DELHI: Christina Samy , who resigned from AAP's national executive on Wednesday, has slammed party leaders for failing to show patience in addressing dissent . Agreeing with criticism that AAP was an "all boys club'', Samy also rebuked the party for not taking the issue seriously enough Samy, who works on women's empowerment and land rights for disadvantaged groups in Tamil Nadu, had supported rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan in the March 4 national executive meeting and voted in their favour. "We did not show enough patience in listening to dissent. Whatever the differences, we had a system in place to address it. This was a big failure on our part," she told TOI."As an outsider, I have heard allegations from both sides. I don't know if any of the allegations are true. Something has gone wrong in the party. But what is it? To understand this, we should have gone to the Lokpal and we would have known," she added.Samy, who is a founder member of the party, said they had put in place a system to address these problems. "We were very proud of the fact that we had created a party where we had a code of conduct and a system to check ourselves. But no procedure was followed in ousting Yadav and Bhushan. I am really disappointed by that," she said.A frequent criticism against the party has been that it lacks women leaders. Samy, for instance, was the only woman in the national executive. Now, neither the political affairs committee nor the national executive has a woman member. Agreeing that the party had not done enough, Samy said, "This is a real concern. We have failed to make a conscious effort to bring in women. It has been discussed several times but we have not been sensitive enough or serious about the issue."Explaining that she was "disappointed" by the manner in which Bhushan and Yadav were asked to leave, Samy said, "There are thousands of mails every day from volunteers in the country and overseas who have been hoping that we will stay together and whatever is decided is done with the party constitution as a basis. We have betrayed them."Samy could not attend the March 28 national council meeting since she was recovering from a surgery.Reacting to Samy's resignation, Prof Anand Kumar tweeted, "Resignation of Christina Samy is bad news for AAP. She is a voice of the voiceless poor and marginal men and women in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Her departure makes AAP national executive an exclusive boys club without any representation of not only women but also whole of south India."