“Rs 100 crore to buy 10 Delhi councillors”: AAP’s big allegation against BJP

Aam Aadmi Party’s Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of trying to “buy” it’s recently-elected councillors in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member 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

He also 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.

“BJP is such a shameless party, that it says the Mayor will be theirs, even after getting 30 fewer seats than us,” Singh said.

According to Singh, 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. Singh alleged that Gupta and BJP workers mentioned a budget of ₹ 100 crore for buying MCD councillors.

“This ₹ 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 ₹ 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 ₹ 50 lakh to cross-vote,” he said.