With fingers being pointed at some of its candidates for having a tainted background, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said it will conduct a probe against the accused candidates if any “evidence” is presented about the allegations leveled against them. The AAP has further accused its rivals of launching a smear campaign against its “strong” nominees.
“We want to make it clear if anyone comes up even with a shred of evidence against an AAP candidate, we would probe threadbare and if any candidate is found guilty, their nomination would be cancelled immediately,” AAP spokesperson Manish Sisodia said. Keeping with its stance of zero tolerance towards corruption, the party removed Shahdara candidate Surendra Sharma after it came to fore that there were criminal cases and FIRs pending against him.
“We can cancel any candidature even on the election day, if we come across any proof that the candidate has a tainted background,” Kejriwal had said.
The party had been receiving complaints against Deshraj Raghav from Uttam Nagar for allegedly being involved in ration shop scam and Vinod Kumar Binny from lakshmi Nagar, who is accused of land grabbing.