Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has never shied away from advocating the use of sting operations to expose corruption. When he first took oath of office as chief minister, his advice to citizens of Delhi, if asked for a bribe, was to "do the setting" and record the person asking for a bribe using mobile phones. He repeated the suggestion when he took oath for the second time, after his party made history with a stunning margin, capturing 67 out of the 70 seats in Delhi assembly.

Earlier, after his first stint of 49 days, when he resigned as chief minister of Delhi, he had publicly exhorted his party members:  “Record your conversations with those trying to poach our legislators and expose them at an opportune time.”

The Delhi chief minister's words came back a full circle to sting him on Wednesday when an audio tape surfaced in which he is heard encouraging ex AAP MLA Rajesh Garg to poach six Congress MLAs and get them to support an AAP government for the second time in Delhi. This prompted Anjali Damania, a senior AAP member from Maharashtra, to resign as she said that she hadn't joined the party for “this nonsense” and horse-trading.

This was followed up by an explosive letter put out by senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, which not only corroborated the charge that Kejriwal had toyed with the idea of forming a government in Delhi with the support of the Congress, but also made serious claims about the state of internal democracy in the party and its processes.

The situation seemed made for Twitter and barbs flowed freely, one tweet at a time, as the hashtag  #AAPBreakUp trended on Twitter. We present a selection of some of these tweets: