The Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) has leveled critical accusations in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), alleging that BJP members ‘kidnapped’ its councillor, Ram Chander. The costs emerged amid ongoing tensions as Delhi prepares for MCD elections. Ram Chander, who lately returned to AAP after initially becoming a member of the BJP, claimed he was threatened with false ED and CBI instances at BJP headquarters. The BJP has dismissed these allegations as baseless, whereas each events proceed to have interaction in a heated trade over the incident and upcoming elections.
Upon his return, Chander claimed that he was threatened on the pretext of being framed in ED-CBI instances by the opposition outfit. Ram Chander, who’s a councillor from Ward No 28, was one of many 5 members who joined the BJP final Sunday. Nevertheless, a couple of days later, he had a change of coronary heart after he noticed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his dream and returned to AAP, he mentioned. Later, in a video message, he mentioned that he was taken by some folks to BJP headquarters.
“There they threatened me saying I’d be framed by ED and CBI. My son Akash known as the police helpline whereas our senior social gathering leaders known as the police commissioner. Once they (BJP) acquired to learn about it, they despatched me again dwelling,” Chander mentioned within the video message.
“I wish to inform BJP, I’m not afraid of ED and CBI. I’ve accomplished nothing mistaken. I’m a soldier of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” he mentioned within the video shared by AAP.
On Sunday, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh shared a video of Ram Chander’s son Akash on X alleging that his father had been kidnapped.
Within the video, Akash says, “My father obtained a name from an ex-councillor of BJP saying, ‘We’re standing downstairs close to your home to satisfy you’. My father went downstairs to his workplace. What we have now learnt is that there have been 4 to 5 folks, who threatened my father that he can be implicated by ED-CBI they usually have taken him. We’re trying to find him.”
Reacting to Singh’s submit, senior social gathering chief Manish Sisodia reiterated the costs levelled by Akash. Taking to X, AAP MLA and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak accused the BJP of “making a mockery of regulation and order” in Delhi.
“Councillor Ram Chander ji from Aam Aadmi Occasion was kidnapped by BJP councillor … alongside along with his goons and nobody is aware of the place they’ve taken Ramchand ji.
“We’re giving this warning to your complete Bharatiya Janata Occasion that if Ram Chander ji isn’t introduced again to his dwelling within the subsequent one to one-and-a-half hours, we are going to create such an uproar that your complete BJP will likely be shaken,” Pathak mentioned on X in Hindi.
Hitting again, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor accused Sisodia and the AAP MCD in-charge of “lies” and “sensationalism”.
“Whether or not councillor Ram Chander is in your social gathering or not, we’re not bothered. It’s sure that he’s sitting at his residence while you’re spreading rumours,” Kapoor reacted in a submit on X in Hindi.
Within the lead-up to the zonal ward committee elections of MCD on September 4, each AAP and BJP have claimed that councillors from the opposite facet are prepared to change allegiance and defect from one social gathering to a different.
