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NEW DELHI: The suspense over the resignation of AAP’s founding member, Ashutosh , from the party continued on Friday. AAP’s Delhi convener, Gopal Rai , and party national spokesperson Dilip Pandey went to Ashutosh’s house on Wednesday to convince him to take back the resignation. A source said Ashutosh, who is also a member of the party’s highest decision-making body — political affairs committee — was unlikely to withdraw his resignation, which he had announced on Twitter on Wednesday.Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has refused to accept Ashutosh’s resignation. “Ashutosh was not interested in contesting the general elections,” claimed a source in the party. Ashutosh, who had lost the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Chandni Chowk to BJP’s Harsh Vardhan, was not among the chosen five..