The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday alleged that the BJP had orchestrated CBI-ED investigations against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia to pressurise him to cause a rift in the AAP and join the BJP.
Addressing a press conference, AAP spokesperson, Saurabh Bhardwaj said that Sisodia refused the BJP’s offer saying he won’t ever side with a party of traitors and anti-nationals.
“Sisodia replied to the BJP saying that he is a Rajput, a descendant of Maharana Pratap. He will have his head chopped off, but he won’t kneel before the BJP’s corrupt-criminals and traitors. The AAP and the whole of Delhi takes pride in Manish Sisodia,” said Bhardwaj.
Bhardwaj further accused the BJP of running a “political laundry service”. “Suvendu Adhikari, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Mukul Roy, Narayan Rane, Anil Sharma, Pema Khandu, Baijayant Panda were all labelled corrupt scamsters by the BJP. ED-CBI raids were ordered on them, but the day they joined the BJP, all their sins were washed off and they became innocent honest leaders. The BJP used the same script to court Manish Sisodia. They offered to shut all cases against him if he joins the BJP, this is the level BJP has stooped to,” said Bhardwaj.
“The BJP had extended their offer to the extent of saying they need Sisodia in the BJP because they do not have a face to field against CM Arvind Kejriwal. They switched between Satish Upadhyay, Harsh Vardhan, Manoj Tiwari, Adesh Gupta but Delhi refused to accept them. The BJP asked him to be the CM candidate, singing all sorts of praises, offering a long future,” said Bhardwaj.
“Sisodia very strongly told him that his loyalty doesn’t come with a price tag. His blood doesn’t bring such values along. He can’t betray his leader and mentor Arvind Kejriwal. The BJP need to know there are leaders like Sisodia who refuse to be pressured by them,” said Bhardwaj.
In another press conference, AAP legislator from Kalkaji, Atishi hit out at Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and said that the Prime Minister does not have time to pay attention to the issue of inflation, unemployment or education and healthcare facilities but he is only bothered about targeting the Opposition parties and pulling every trick in the book to topple non-BJP State Governments all over the country.
“We just now witnessed the undemocratic path taken by the BJP to dismantle the alliance of the Shiv Sena. We also saw how the BJP bulldozed Governments of State-after-State in Goa, Karnataka and Manipur. The BJP uses its entire muscles to cause a rift in the ruling parties and topple their Governments. As per the Prime Minister’s and BJP’s modus operandi, investigation agencies of the Central Government are the most powerful weapon in their arsenal,” she said. AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh said that the BJP had used CBI-ED to cause rifts in Maharashtra, Karnataka, MP and Goa Governments so they could come to power but the BJP’s plans completely failed in Delhi.
“The BJP is in deep shock ever since Manish Sisodia exposed their intentions. They have no answer to him. They are seeing their experiments of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Rajasthan and Bengal fall flat on their faces in Delhi. Their chain of breaking Governments and buying MLAs has completely failed today,” claimed Singh.
“It has been made clear how the ED-CBI are nothing but foot soldiers of the BJP that orchestrate this operation. They wrote the same script for Delhi but Sisodia refused to budge,” said Singh.