New Delhi:
Amid the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) marketing campaign for the Delhi Election, occasion convener Arvind Kejriwal has shot off a letter to Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of BJP’s ideological guardian RSS, and requested a number of questions on the BJP’s politics.
Mr Kejriwal has requested if the RSS helps the BJP’s “wrongdoings”. “BJP leaders are overtly distributing cash, does RSS assist shopping for votes? The names of Dalit and Purvanchali voters are being struck off (from voter lists) on a big scale. Does RSS suppose that is good for democracy? Doesn’t RSS really feel that the BJP is weakening democracy?” Mr Kejriwal has requested.
The letter is clearly aimed toward embarrassing the BJP amid a bitter marketing campaign for the capital contest. While AAP has alleged that the BJP is getting voters’ names struck off the checklist in a determined try to win the election, the BJP has accused the ruling occasion of getting pretend voters’ names added to the checklist to bolster its assist.
The BJP responded sharply to Mr Kejriwal’s letter with a letter. State BJP President Virendra Sachdeva stated, “Today, I’ve written a letter to Aam Aadmi Party chief and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal…we hope that you’ll abandon your mistaken habits of mendacity and deceit and convey significant change inside your self.”
BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi stated Mr Kejriwal’s letter to the RSS chief is an try to seize “media consideration”. “Don’t write to the Sangh (RSS), study from it. Learn the spirit of service, go away behind your political strikes,” the Rajya MP stated.
In an interplay with the media on Sunday, Mr Kejriwal stated the BJP has neither imaginative and prescient nor candidates for the Delhi election. “BJP needs to win this election one way or the other through the use of dishonest means. But the individuals of Delhi will not let this occur. We will not allow them to win through the use of the techniques they’re stated to have utilized in Maharashtra and Haryana,” he stated, asking Delhiites to maintain checking names on voter lists.
The AAP chief alleged that the BJP had launched “Operation Lotus” within the New Delhi constituency that he represents. “In 15 days, they’ve put in functions to delete names of 5,000 voters and likewise utilized for the addition of seven,500 names to the voter checklist. The whole votes in my constituency is 1 lakh 6 thousand. What is the purpose of holding an election then? A sport is taking part in out within the identify of election.”
The AAP chief stated a abstract revision was carried out earlier and the Election Commission launched a revised voter checklist on October 29. “If there’s a 12 per cent distinction because the BJP claims, was the ballot physique’s abstract revision mistaken?”
Mr Kejriwal alleged that the BJP plans to get individuals from outdoors and register them as Delhi voters.
Refuting the costs, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva stated the variety of voters in Delhi noticed an enormous bounce between the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and the Assembly election subsequent 12 months. The similar, he stated, was noticed after the 2019 normal election. “Who acquired these new voters? There are not any solutions. They try to play the identical sport this time. BJP is saying those that do not stay in Delhi anymore, those that have died, why ought to their names be on the checklist?”
The BJP chief alleged that pretend paperwork have been getting used to get pretend voters’ names on the checklist.
Mr Kejriwal additionally warned officers in opposition to committing irregularities on the BJP’s behest. “I need to inform the officers, you can be pressured to commit mistaken acts however keep in mind, you’ll signal the papers and these signatures will keep. Today or tomorrow, the federal government will change, however the information and signatures will keep. Work as per legislation, you can be in bother. The ones who’re giving the orders would escape.”
The AAP chief had written to Mr Bhagwat in September too, asking asking 5 questions associated to the BJP and its management. The letter raised questions on Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions and the NDA authorities’s alleged misuse of central businesses to focus on political rivals.