New Delhi, December 11, 2022 (PPI-OT): Aam Aadmi Party has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to “buy” its recently-elected councillors in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Senior AAP leader and member of Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian parliament), Sanjay Singh, said that despite getting 30 fewer seats in the civic body polls in Delhi, and losing 80 seats as compared to the last polls, the saffron party is down to “dirty games, just like the horse-trading of MLAs in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, and Gujarat.
Singh said, BJP is such a shameless party, and that it says the Mayor will be theirs, even after getting 30 fewer seats than us. According to him, a man named Yogendra Chandolia called up AAP councillor Dr Ronakshi Sharma and said the BJP’s state president Adesh Kumar Gupta would like to talk to her. He said Gupta and BJP workers mentioned a budget of Rs 100 crore for buying MCD councillors. “This Rs 100 crore was to buy just 10 councillors. The Bharatiya Khokha Party (AAP’s jibe at BJP for alleged horse-trading) has a budget of Rs 10 crore for each councillor,” he said.
Another councillor Jyoti Rani’s husband said a man pulled him aside on the road, and said he had an offer for us. “He told me they would give us Rs 50 lakh to cross-vote,” he said. Sanjay Singh appealed to the Delhi Police Commissioner to arrest and jail those who are “trying to murder democracy and insult the people’s mandate” through threats and money.
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