The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 offered its MLAs `5 crore to join them. The AAP’s spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that the BJP has now reached out to Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and offered to make him the Chief Minister if he leaves AAP and joins them. “We will defeat ‘Operation Lotus’ in Delhi once again,” he added.
Addressing a press conference, Bharadwaj also said the BJP is running ‘Operation Lotus’ in Delhi and they are pulling every trick in the book to topple the democratically-elected Government in Delhi.
“This is their modus operandi. They began by targeting Sisodia which is evident through the massive campaign against him for alleged scam in building classrooms of Government schools. Nothing came out of it and the BJP fell flat on their faces,” said Bharadwaj. “Afterwards, the BJP threw allegations on him for some irregularities associated with the Excise Policy.
The campaign ran for several months. Then, they threatened with CBI raids. Despite CBI raids at Sisodia’s house, they could not find even an iota of evidence,” said Bharadwaj.
Bharadwaj then showed a video and said that in this video it is clearly visible that BJP leaders were contacting AAP Legislators and they are offering a whopping amount of `5 crore. Hitting hard at BJP, the AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh said that BJP seems to be under great distress ever since the AAP crushed their dreams and nullified their ‘Operation Lotus’ in Delhi.
“The BJP thought their experiments with Shinde would reap benefits in Delhi too, but here they were met by the valour, courage and loyalty of Sisodia. This is why the whole of BJP, starting from its top leadership, is repenting its actions today,” said Singh.
AAP legislator from Kalkaji, Atishi appealed to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to stop focusing on breaking parties and toppling governments. “I urge Prime Minister to think about youth, women, and children of country. They are hoping that you will give solutions to their problem and you are conspiring against other Governments.
You (Prime Minister) think that if you did not get people’s mandate in any state, then you should execute Operation Lotus and grab power,” said Atishi.
“I want to tell him (Prime Minister) that the country belongs to everyone. We are working tirelessly to provide excellent education, public healthcare, employment and installing CCTV cameras in entire Delhi. You should call the Chief Minister and Deputy CM to ask them about the manner in which we have worked for the betterment of the lives of the people and that too while keeping the budget in profit so that it can be replicated in other states and the entire country,” she said.