BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Saturday filed a police complaint against AAP’s Kumar Vishwas accusing him of making sexist comments against her while her party approached the Election Commission on the issue.
Hours after the BJP accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas of making derogatory remarks against BJP chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, the AAP released the video of the speech to back its claim that no such comments were made.
Bedi alleged that the AAP leader made the “derogatory sexist” remarks against her at a recent election rally while the AAP has said the video clearly proves that Vishwas never made any comments against Bedi, the BJP has shot down the argument. Vishwas denied the allegations that he made remarks against Bedi and said he will quit politics if she can prove the same.
“What kind of security and dignity can women expect from AAP’s leadership that itself has blatant sexist and perverse mindsetsIJ” Bedi said in a tweet. Vishwas, however, dismissed the allegations and accused Bedi of misleading the people. “I am surprised that channels are not showing this video. There were cameras of so many channels. There was an Election Commission camera too.
“This is the online channel of BJP which when realises that it’s trailing in the campaign starts engaging in spreading such rumours. It is there routine task to give such abrupt statements and I am challenging Kiran Bedi and BJP that if she can prove these remarks and show a video of mine saying the same things, I will quit politics, else Bedi should quit,” he said.
Meanwhile, BJP national president Amit Shah on Saturday termed the matter of granting full statehood to Delhi ‘sensitive,’ and added that it should not be made an election issue. Shah later called for a proper debate over it.
Noting that BJP stood united in Delhi behind its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and there was no internal rift, he said the party would win in a big way touching the two-third majority mark.