AAP Claims Sting Shows BJP Trying to Buy a Legislator
Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has released a
17-minute video to claim that the BJP offered one of its Delhi
legislators four crores to switch sides. Mr Kejriwal claimed the sting will be
submitted tomorrow in the Supreme Court where he has petitioned judges to order
elections in Delhi . (Watch:
Arvind Kejriwal on AAP's Sting Operation)
NDTV cannot independently verify the video or its contents.
Delhi has been under central rule
for nearly six months, since Mr Kejriwal quit after a 49-day term. Delhi 's
Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has recommended that the BJP be invited to form
the government because it won the maximum seats in the last election in
December.
The BJP and its allies have 29 seats between them and need at least five more. Mr Kejriwal's party has said repeatedly that to bridge the gap, the BJP is offering AAP legislators money and positions as ministers if they agree to defect to the BJP. Today, AAP leader Sourabh Bhardwaj told NDTV that his party has more such videos of BJP leaders. (More Stings Where This Came From, Claims AAP Leader on NDTV)
NDTV cannot independently verify the video or its contents.
The BJP and its allies have 29 seats between them and need at least five more. Mr Kejriwal's party has said repeatedly that to bridge the gap, the BJP is offering AAP legislators money and positions as ministers if they agree to defect to the BJP. Today, AAP leader Sourabh Bhardwaj told NDTV that his party has more such videos of BJP leaders. (More Stings Where This Came From, Claims AAP Leader on NDTV)
In the AAP video, the BJP's Sher Singh Dagar meets at his
home on Sunday evening with AAP' Dinesh Mohaniya. Mr Dagar did not deny the
meeting, but said the video was fake and he had never offered money.
"He (Mohaniya) came to meet me and I never went (to meet Mohaniya). There was no talk of money and I did not offer him anything," Mr Dagar said at a press conference.
The video puts the BJP on the back-foot days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh declared that his party would have nothing to do with horse-trading. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra today said, "Though I have not seen the video, but even if he (Dagar) interacted with the (AAP) MLA, it was in his personal capacity and not as a leader of the BJP."
The Supreme Court had last month asked the Centre to indicate within six weeks whether it will call for fresh elections inDelhi .
That notice was based on Mr Kejriwal's petition. AAP believes that in a new
election, it will perform well, and alleges that the BJP is avoiding facing the
voters because in its first three months in power at the Centre, the party has
failed to deliver on fighting corruption and checking rising food prices.
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"He (Mohaniya) came to meet me and I never went (to meet Mohaniya). There was no talk of money and I did not offer him anything," Mr Dagar said at a press conference.
The video puts the BJP on the back-foot days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh declared that his party would have nothing to do with horse-trading. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra today said, "Though I have not seen the video, but even if he (Dagar) interacted with the (AAP) MLA, it was in his personal capacity and not as a leader of the BJP."
The Supreme Court had last month asked the Centre to indicate within six weeks whether it will call for fresh elections in
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