The Delhi BJP on Tuesday alleged a Rs 800 crore scam involving panic buttons installed by the transport department through vendors in private taxis and buses and demanded that a case should be registered against AAP leader and transport minister Kailash Gahlot.

Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva and Leader of Opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri in a joint press conference on Sunday alleged the Arvind Kejriwal saying this is a big scam in which earlier Rs 9,000 was being charged per taxi in the name of panic button, which has now been increased to Rs 17,000. In the last five, this government has collected Rs 800 crore in the name of panic button. Not only this, its renewal fee is also being charged separately.

“The money collected from the Panic Button in the name of women’s safety has gone in the pockets of Gehlot, Kejriwal and officers involved in this corruption,” the BJP leaders said.

The BJP leaders further challenged the statement of Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot, in which he had claimed that Panic Buttons installed in taxis and buses are working. Bidhuri on Sunday tweeted and challenged Gahlot to come to see the demonstration of failure of panic buttons in taxi cabs before the media outside his residence.

After this, BJP leaders showed in front of the media by pressing the panic button installed in the taxis, on which no one came to help. State spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor while coordinating the press conference said that this Panic Button scam by the Kejriwal government, who talks about women’s safety every day, is a big case of corruption.

Sachdeva said that just a few days back the Leader of Opposition showed before the media that the Panic Buttons installed in the taxis plying in Delhi were not working and waited for hours but no one came to help.

Despite all this being in front of the media, Gehlot is claimed that the Panic Buttons are working.

Challenging the transport minister, the Delhi BJP President said that the transport minister should make public those cases in which the AAP government helped by pressing the panic button in Delhi.