New Delhi, April 21 -- Claiming that there is a growing discontent within the Aam Aadmi Party ranks, Union Minister Harsh Malhotra on Monday said that "internal rifts" and "misgovernance" led to the Arvind Kejriwal-led party's failure to field a candidate for the upcoming Delhi mayoral elections.

Speaking to ANI, Malhotra asserted that several AAP councillors have switched allegiance to the BJP and that the party leadership's failures have left its representatives disillusioned.

"AAP's own public representatives, more than a dozen of its councillors, joined the BJP during the Delhi Assembly elections. There is a lot of tension within their party, and their councillors are feeling suffocated because of the misgovernance of their leadersh...