BJP wants to topple AAP govt in Delhi via no-confidence motion, says Raghav Chadha

Amid the ongoing power tussle between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government, AAP MP Raghav Chadha has claimed.

That the BJP was trying to topple the AAP government in Delhi by introducing a no-confidence motion. “The BJP wants to topple Delhi’s Kejriwal government by bringing in a no-confidence motion in the Delhi Assembly.”

“BJP is now luring and threatening AAP MLAs to join their party. BJP has also approached several AAP MLAs to support the no-confidence motion,” he claimed.

Chadha’s statement comes a day after a Delhi court extended the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who is facing a probe in a money laundering case related to the alleged now-scrapped Delhi liquor scam, by five days and AAP MP Sanjay Singh said Sisodia was being treated worse than a terrorist in jail.

Sisodia, along with former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, are lodged in Tihar jail after being arrested by central probe agencies in separate cases. Former Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in May 2022 in a five-year-old money laundering case.

In fact, AAP, along with other Opposition parties had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging the misuse of central agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to frame their leaders. They said most politicians booked, arrested, raided or interrogated by investigative agencies in the BJP regime since 2014 belonged to the Opposition.