Alka Lamba, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Chandni Chowk, is not resigning. The 43-year-old MLA herself said on Saturday that she is not resigning.

Her statement came on a day when the AAP held a press conference stating that the party has not asked anyone to resign following a row over a resolution demanding that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi be stripped off his Bharat Ratna over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

“We haven’t asked anybody to resign and nobody is resigning,” Delhi deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said during a press briefing today.

Sisodia also said that the original resolution did not mention the controversial demand and that it was hand written by a legislator.

According to reports, the AAP claims that the resolution simply calls for justice for the families affected by the riots and the riots itself be declared as one of the worst genocides.

The AAP leadership said that legislator Somnath Bharti added the amendment seeking the revocation of former PM’s Bharat Ratna and passed on his copy of the resolution to Tilak Nagar legislator Jarnail Singh.

Following the controversy, Somnath Bharti tweeted that the amendment was not put to vote.

“I clarify that amendment I proposed was not put to vote as an amendment n hence there is no question of passing the same,” Bharti wrote on Twitter.

Jarnail ji didn’t propose that amendment n never put that 4 vote.Amendments r always put to vote separately n unless passed,that can’t form part of passed resolution.1st I talked of this in my speech n then suggested this amendment n party had no opportunity to see same….2/2

— Adv. Somnath Bharti (@attorneybharti) December 21, 2018

I further clarify that amendment I proposed was not put to vote as an amendment n hence there is no question of passing the same. Hope this answers the dispute conclusively.

— Adv. Somnath Bharti (@attorneybharti) December 21, 2018

Sisodia on Saturday maintained that no amendment can be passed without a discussion or voting.

After the AAP’s clarification on the matter, Lamba posted two tweets in praise of Rajiv Gandhi.

“Extremely happy that party has supported the Bharat Ratna given to the late Rajiv Gandhi. This country can never forget Rajiv Gandhi’s incomparable sacrifice. I am removing the copy which was not passed in the Vidhan Sabha,” she wrote in Hindi.

In her second tweet, she credited Gandhi of introducing a series of reforms that shaped India’s democratic structure including voting rights for 18 year olds and telecom revolution.

मुझे बेहद ख़ुशी महसूस हो रही है कि पार्टी ने देश द्वारा स्वर्गीय श्री #राजीव_गांधी जी को दिये गए #भारत_रत्न का समर्थन किया है,
श्री राजीव गांधी जी के अतुलनीय बलिदान और त्याग को यह देश कभी नही भुला सकता है।
मैं उस प्रस्ताव की प्रति को हटा रही हूँ,जो कि विधानसभा में पास ही नही हुई।

— Alka Lamba (@LambaAlka) December 22, 2018

पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री,#भारत_रत्न स्वर्गीय श्री #राजीव_गाँधी जी को मेरी श्रद्धांजलि।

युवाओं को 18की उम्र में वोट का अधिकार।

पंचायती राज की स्थापना।

21साल में युवाओं को चुनाव लड़ने का अधिकार।

महिलाओं को पंचायतों और निगमों में आरक्षण।

देश में टेलीकॉम-कंप्यूटर क्रांति।
👍.

— Alka Lamba (@LambaAlka) December 22, 2018

Reports said that on December 21, the Delhi Assembly adopted a resolution on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which it was demanded that the Bharat Ratna awarded to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi be withdrawn.

The matter became a major crisis with Lamba alleging she was “put under pressure” to support the resolution, which she resisted and boycotted.

Lamba had on Friday said that she is ready to tender her resignation as “demanded” by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for not supporting a resolution in the assembly on revoking late PM Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna.

According to PTI, Lamba said she was ready to face “any consequences” and claimed she spoke to AAP supremo and CM Kejriwal who, she said, asked her to resign as MLA. “I am ready to do so”, she said.

The Chandni Chowk MLA said she was not happy with the demand to take back Bharat Ratna from Gandhi and staged a walkout in protest.

(With inputs from agencies.)