BJP slams AAP for blaming it, cops for attack

The Delhi BJP on Monday “condemned” the ink attack on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, but also objected to the accusations made by AAP leaders that the incident was doctored by the BJP.

“We do not approve of such incidents, but on the other hand, the swiftness with which deputy CM Manish Sisodia started blaming the BJP and the police is more condemnable and raises suspicion whether the act was staged by the AAP itself,” Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay said. The BJP, he claimed, has never supported such anarchic politics but the AAP and the Congress have given political promotion to people committing such acts.

“It was the AAP which encouraged anarchism in politics by promoting Jarnail Singh, a Khalistani supporter, to become an MLA, after he had thrown a shoe at the then finance minister P. Chidambaram Similarly, the Congress had also indulged in low-grade politics by promoting Bhola Pandey of Uttar Pradesh, who had hijacked a plane three decades ago, to the post of MLA,” he said.

Condemning the incident, Mr Upadhyay said that the Aam Aadmi Party came to power by promising punishment to the corrupt, preventing loot of public money by the leaders and arbitrary implementation of government schemes besides misleading the youth and women with promises of big schemes, but after coming to power it has totally disappointed the people. The Delhi BJP chief also alleged that the AAP government and the party have become a “synonym of anarchy, nepotism and protector of loot and corruption.”

A woman, identified as Bhavna Arora and who claimed to be a member of the Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Sena, threw ink at Mr Kejriwal at a public rally alleging that she has ample proof that the AAP-led Delhi government was directly involved in the CNG scam. “The allegations levelled by Bhavna Arora against the AAP government over the sale of more than one lakh CNG stickers to non-CNG cars in Delhi exposes double standards of the government,” Mr Upadhyay said.

“The AAP has emerged as the most corrupt party than Congress,” Mr Upadhyay tweeted.