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Explain your relations with Maoists, private discoms: BJP to Kejriwal
The BJP Monday posed its fifth set of question for AAP leader Arvind
Kejriwal asking him to explain his relations with convicted Maoists as
well as private power distribution companies.
Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
leader to answer why convicted Maoists are important members of his
party committees, and are given tickets.
"Binayak Sen, convicted
by court for Naxal (Moaist) activities, is an important member of AAP
internal committees. Kejriwal should explain this relationship," she
said.
Similarly, she accused AAP of having close connections with private electricity companies.
"First
you give them subsidies by diverting money from SC/ST welfare and then
to further deceive Delhi voters, you announce an infructuous audit
against them knowing full well the statute limitation that such audit is
time barred.
"Will you explain this special partnership with discoms?" asked Sitharaman.
Thirdly, the BJP asked Kejriwal to explain why he and his party members were attacking and threatening the media.
"Why
are you (Kejriwal) persistently disrespecting all institutions? After
disrespecting courts and Election Commission, you have now taken your
contempt of democratic institutions to even disrespecting the media,"
she accused.
Targeting AAP's Okhla candidate Amanatullah Khan,
Sitharaman alleged that he was a known associate of 2008 Delhi and
Ahmadabad bomb blasts accused Zia-ur-Rahman.
Sitharaman, in her
fourth question asked why Kejriwal could not contest elections without
allying with Maoists and other forces inimical to India's interests.
In
its final question, the BJP asked why Kejriwal was misleading the
traders of Delhi by claiming that no VAT raids were conducted against
them during his 49-day rule in Delhi whereas over 150 raids took place
in his tenure.
The BJP plans to put five questions before
Kejriwal everyday till Feb 5 in the run-up to the Delhi assembly
elections Feb 7. The results will be declared Feb 10.