Charges by rivals, murmurs within roil AAP with just days to go for Lok Sabha elections

With general elections looming, the party faces a crisis as leaders defect and others remain conspicuously silent, leaving the party's future in doubt.

With about a week to go for general elections, every political party in India is a whirlwind of frenzied activity as leaders criss-cross the length and breadth of the country to shore up support for their candidates. But the country’s youngest political outfit is fighting an existential battle in which it is trying to repel its opponents and keep its flock together.

AAP leaders at a protest in Delhi on April 7. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)