Amid growing differences within the opposition alliance, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Dilip Pandey has alleged that pressure is being put on the party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to walk out of the INDIA bloc.
"BJP is not able to get Kejriwal arrested from the ED so now they are trying to put Arvind Kejriwal behind bars through CBI. Until BJP felt that an alliance between AAP and Congress would not be possible, they went into waiting mode. As the alliance took a concrete shape, the BJP started attacking AAP. Even if they (BJP) are using ED and CBI as their political frontal organisations, AAP will not be afraid of them. We will democratically face them," Pandey was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
“BJP is so scared of INDIA bloc that now CBI pressure is being put on us so that we come out of the alliance," he added. Pandey also claimed that after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to imprison Kejriwal through the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
However, the BJP has denied the allegations stating that AAP is playing ‘victimhood’. BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla said that the guarantee of the Chinese products are more than the statements given by AAP.
"The allegations made by AAP are less credible than the things we get in the 'chor bazaar'. The guarantee of Chinese products is more than the statement of Aam Aadmi Party. This is because whenever they made allegations be it on Arun Jaitley or Nitin Gadkari, they had to apologise. First they alleged that BJP wants to break their MLAs, till date no proof of this has come. When the police reached them, they ran away from there. They have left Anna Hazare and have joined Lalu and Sonia Gandhi whom they cursed for corruption. He (Arvind Kejriwal) knows that he won't get any relaxation in the liquor scam and thus he is playing victimhood," Poonawalla said.
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Meanwhile, AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj predicted on Friday that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would be arrested within the next 2-3 days.