The people of Delhi will ensure that the AAP candidates lose security deposits from most seats in the Assembly polls due early next year, BJP’s city unit chief Virendra Sachdeva said on Saturday. South Delhi BJP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said AAP leaders are celebrating as Sisodia came from the Paris Olympics  with a gold medal.

The people will give their response to the “boastful” speeches made by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders during the welcome ceremony for Manish Sisodia, who has been released from prison on conditional bail, Sachdeva said.

Sachdeva slammed the AAP, saying “the people of Delhi want to know from Manish Sisodia whether it is true that he has been granted bail under unusual conditions, such as having to report to the police station at 10 am twice a week and keep his phone location active round the clock”.The AAP, which is celebrating the bail given to the former deputy chief minister, must not forget that their “role model”, Lalu Prasad, was also granted bail in the fodder scam but later received a long sentence in 2016, the BJP leader said.

“The AAP leaders, who are dreaming that the BJP candidates will lose their security deposits in the Assembly polls should remember how the people of Delhi rejected their campaign based on jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Lok Sabha polls,” he said.

In the Assembly polls too, the people of the capital will not only reject the AAP’s slogans, but also ensure that most of its candidates lose their deposits, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader added.

Addressing a gathering of AAP workers and leaders at the party headquarters here on Saturday, a day after his release from the Tihar jail, Sisodia slammed the BJP-led Centre and called upon people to fight against its “dictatorship”.