Yet again attacking Bharatiya Janata Party, former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday dared the BJP to contest polls in Delhi.
Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal slammed Lt Governor Najeeb Jung of favouring BJP. “The Lt Governor needs to revise his letter to the President and tell him that BJP shouldn’t be invited to form government in Delhi after the sting,” the AAP chief said.
Kejriwal said that AAP will send a copy of the sting CD to President Pranab Mukherjee and appeal to him not to heed to Jung’s advice. Kejrwial also said that AAP would expose many such wrongdoings by the BJP at an appropriate time.
While asking the BJP to contest polls, Kejriwal said, “Why is BJP afraid of contesting elections in Delhi when it has its own government at the Centre and also won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital.”
The ex-Delhi CM said that his party would protest against BJP and show people the sting operation and make them see the double face of the party.
In a bid to checkmate BJP, AAP said it is in contact with Congress, JD(U) and some “honest” BJP legislators to prevent the saffron party from forming government in Delhi through “ill means”.
Kejriwal claimed that the BJP was in touch with 15 AAP MLAs and he will come out with “more sting tapes if the need arises”.
“I want to make it very clear that AAP is in touch with all the parties…With (independent MLA from Mundka) Rambeer Shokeen, (JDU MLA) Shoaib Iqbal, (expelled AAP MLA Vinod Kumar) Binny, the Congress and even some honest MLAs from the BJP.
“By saying this we make it clear that we are not aiming to form the government, but we want to stop the BJP from forming the government through dishonest means. We are in favour of elections,” Kejriwal said.
Meanwhile, reacting to Kejriwal’s comments, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that it is appalling and the AAP leader has always ridiculed constitutional posts.
Another BJP leader Delhi unit incharge Prabhat Jha said Kejriwal has an identity crisis and he is doing all this for media coverage.
The AAP on Monday released a video showing a BJP leader offering money to one of its legislators, inducing him to quit the Assembly to improve the BJP’s chances of forming a government in Delhi.
The grainy video shot covertly shows Delhi unit vice-president Sher Singh Dagar making the bribe offer to AAP’s Dinesh Mohaniya if he resigned so as to bring down the effective strength of the hung Delhi Assembly.
