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Arvind Kejriwal says BJP was in touch with 15 AAP MLAs to form Delhi govt; says he'll come out with 'more sting tapes if the need arises'
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Ghaziabad: In a bid to checkmate Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said it is in contact with Congress, Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), and some “honest" BJP legislators to prevent the saffron party from forming the government in Delhi through “ill means".
At a press conference here, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the BJP was in touch with 15 AAP MLAs and he will come out with “more sting tapes if the need arises". Kejriwal had on Monday released a video of a “sting operation" in which BJP’s Delhi unit vice president Sher Singh Dagar allegedly offered bribe to AAP MLA Dinesh Mohania (Sangam Vihar) to switch sides.
“I want to make it very clear that AAP is in touch with all parties...with Rambeer Shokeen (independent, Shoaib Iqbal (JD(U) MLA), Binny (Vinod Kumar Binny, (expelled AAP MLA), the Congress and even some honest MLAs from the BJP,"
said the former Delhi chief minister.
“By saying this we make it clear that we are not aiming to form the government, but we want to stop the BJP from forming the government through dishonest means. We are in favour of elections."
Kejriwal also accused lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung of batting for the BJP and demanded that letter written by him to the President seeking his permission to invite the BJP for government formation should be withdrawn immediately.
“It is L-G’s constitutional responsibility to see there is no assault on the constitution. We are also meeting the L-G tomorrow and will hand him over the CD and apprise him of BJP’s plan of horse trading for forming the government," said Kejriwal. “The letter written by the L-G to the president should be immediately withdrawn and revised."
He also announced to launch a campaign to “expose" the saffron party before the people. “We will go to the people of Delhi with the video clip and tell how the BJP is trying to buy our MLAs and expose the way they were trying to form a government in Delhi by putting all ethics and morality on the backburner," said Kejriwal.
He said AAP is going to write to the President that the BJP should not be given a chance to form the government in Delhi. He wondered why BJP was “afraid" of polls.
“It is their government, their governor, they have 7 MPs then why they don’t want to go for elections in the national capital," Kejriwal said.
Kejriwal said AAP will meet the Delhi police commissioner on Wednesday so an FIR could be registered in the sting operation case. “We are also meeting the election commission to present this case before them," the AAP chief said.
He also raised questions over the language used in the letter sent by the L-G to the President. Kejriwal said that in his letter to the President, the “L-G has said ‘I shall be grateful if the honourable President of India grants approval to invite the BJP that is even today the single largest party in the legislature to seek their interest in forming the government’. Why is he grateful if BJP is invited?"
In an other development, AAP leader Kumar Vishwas on Tuesday appeared to be critical of the functioning of his party while praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The poet-turned-politician said that he fears AAP turning into a “typical political party". “The day it becomes a typical political party (god forbid), I will quit politics," he said in an interview to a private channel.
On a question whether he will ever join BJP, he said, “I may come out of AAP but will not join BJP." He also criticised AAP’s decision of giving up power in Delhi and maintained that it should not have happened. “It was his (Kejriwal’s) call that if we cannot pass the Janlokpal Bill despite being in power, then it’s dishonesty," he said.
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