India, July 14 -- Arvind Kejriwal, national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), sparred with BJP IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya over Tahir Hussain, the expelled AAP leader who has been convicted in Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma's murder case in 2020 Delhi riots.

Malviya took to X on Monday sharing the news of Hussain's conviction as he called him a "close associate" of Kejriwal. However, Kejriwal distanced himself from Hussain and said the party had expelled him long back.

"Didn't he join one of chanda chor party's sister organization?" Kejriwal wrote in response to Malviya's X post. Comments below the post said Kejriwal was implying that Hussain had joined Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AI...