Launching a sharp attack at the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday accused the grand-old party of supporting Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi Assembly polls.
This comes a day after the Delhi Congress released a 12-point "white paper" targeting the AAP and the BJP over their alleged unkept promises and mismanagement on various issues like pollution, civic facilities and law and order.
“Congress's action makes it clear that the party has made some arrangements with BJP for Delhi elections,” Delhi chief minister Atishi said.
“Yesterday, Congress's senior leader Ajay Maken said that Arvind Kejriwal is anti-national. I want to ask the Congress party if they have ever levelled the same allegations against any BJP leader. No. But today, Congress is accusing Arvind Kejriwal of being anti-national,” the AAP leader said further.
She stated that the Congress party filed an FIR against her and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal while it had never done so against the BJP’s leaders.
“We have found through credible sources that Congress candidates’ election expenditure is coming from the BJP. BJP is funding Congress candidates. If Congress thinks we (AAP) are anti-national, then why did they contest Lok Sabha elections in alliance with us? It is clear that Congress leaders have reached some mutual understanding with BJP to defeat AAP and make BJP win in Delhi,” she said.
“If there is no understanding between Congress and BJP, then they should take action against Ajay Maken within 24 hours,” she added.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, AICC treasurer Ajay Maken lashed out at AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, saying his party came to power riding on the Janlokpal agitation but has failed to set up the anti-corruption ombudsman.
"If there is one word to describe former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal here then it would be Farziwal," he said while releasing the white paper titled "Mauka Mauka, Har Baar Dhoka".
"If anyone is the king of fraud in the entire country then it is Kejriwal and that is why we have come here with a white paper on the Kejriwal government and also on the BJP government at the Centre," Maken said.
Maken also said that forming an alliance with AAP was a "mistake" that should be rectified, and went on to add that it was his personal opinion.
"I feel that today the plight of Delhi and that the Congress got weakened here is only because of the fact that we supported AAP for 40 days in 2013.”
(With agencies inputs)
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