The BJP on Friday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and said that the way names of AAP leaders are coming up in corruption cases shows that corruption is now a common thing in AAP.
Meanwhile, BJP’s Mahila Morcha workers on Friday formed 38 groups in Delhi and launched a public awareness campaign against the liquor scam and corruption of the Arvind Kejriwal Government at major intersections. Under this campaign, women workers stood at various places carrying placards on which it was written - ‘AAP’ drowned Delhi in liquor, now liquor will drown ‘AAP’.
“...One of their (AAP) Ministers, Satyendar Jain, went to prison in a corruption case and he was not granted bail either, then they (AAP) went a step higher with (Delhi) Deputy CM Manish Sisodia going to prison and now MP Sanjay Singh is also on remand on corruption charges..this shows that corruption is now a common thing in AAP. The frequent arrests of its leaders have exposed the claims made by the party led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said at a press conference on Friday.
Trivedi further said, “...the proofs that have come so far show that a change in the policy (liquor excise policy) was made and this was a tactical change which shows that the whole party (AAP) was involved...they withdrew the policy as soon as the CBI inquiry started and then they defended the policy as well which has made the party sink even more in this matter...”
“For those who are alleging that the case is baseless, the Rouse Avenue Court has clearly observed that prima facie, the material placed before it nowhere shows that the arrest in the present case is unwarranted and unreasonable,” he said.
“Those who speak of having new experiences in politics ... It is no more the era of experimental politics. India is emerging strongly on the world stage to play a new role,” Trivedi said, claiming that the AAP has shown how tragic and dangerous such experiences can become.
In a related development, the BJP Mahila Morcha on Friday held demonstrations to demand the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following the arrest of AAP leaders in connection with the alleged liquor scam.
Carrying placards bearing slogans against the AAP and its national convenor Kejriwal, activists of the Mahila Morcha’s Delhi unit held demonstrations at major intersections of the national capital. Participating in the demonstrations at ITO and Rail Bhawan, Virendra Sachdeva, chief of the BJP’s Delhi unit, said Kejriwal will also go to jail in the “scam”.