From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of selling the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket in the ongoing Delhi Municipal elections in Rs 80 lakh and presented in its press conference AAP member Bindu Shriram who revealed it through a sting operation.
BJP national spokesman Dr Sambit Patra and Delhi BJP MLA Vijendra Gupta claimed the sting operation showed how Bindu Shriram was asked to pay Rs 80 lakh for a ticket for No 52 Rohini seat in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
They said the sting operation also showed money extracted for as many as 110 seats. Bindu Shriram, who carried out the sting operation, was earlier in the Congress. She told reporters that she went by the advice of Kejriwal to all members to expose corruption and made the video through a sting operation when she found how big money is demanded for giving AAP ticket.
The video shows Punit Goyal, who is inchage coordinator of the Rohini assembly constituency. He is close to one R R Pathania and also in-charge of an NGO “Desh ki baat” run by Delhi minister Gopal Rai. The third player is Dinesh Shroff, who is related to AAP MP Sushil Gupta and Assembly Speaker Ramniwas. The fourth player is Pathania, who is a member of AAP’s national executive and incharge of Delhi state SC-ST unit.
The video clips show Bindu talking to Punit Goyal, Shrof and Pathania.
Cutting short, Dr Patra accued Kejriwal of acting like a mafia don, giving responsibility to various persons to recover money from candidates which is clearly a case of massive corruption. In a helpline, Kejriwal had suggested to make sting operation of anybody wanting bribe and send it to his helpline. Dr Patra said now the sting videos of corruption are emerging from AAP office itself.