New Delhi: Saying that every possible strategy is being adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to harass Aam Aadmi Party leaders, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Sunday said that the BJP does the same. Tall claims of winning more than 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, but on the contrary, BJP knows the ground reality that it will be a difficult task for them to cross the simple majority in the elections. “All tactics are being used to harass AAP leaders. On one hand, they (BJP) show confidence in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections that they will win more than 400 seats, but they also know the ground reality that this will not happen. Capable of exceeding 272 seats. Bharat Bloc will put up a strong fight. First they sent ED, now they are using Delhi Police which comes under Home Ministry. The action of these agencies is influenced by sheer politics,” Priyanka Chaturvedi told ANI.
Earlier today, the Delhi Police Crime Branch served a fresh notice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to respond to its allegations of poaching attempts by the BJP with evidence by Monday. The crime branch also served notice to AAP leader and minister Atishi in the case of poaching claims and asked him to reply within three days. Crime Branch officials were at Atishi’s residence to serve a notice to the Delhi Education Minister regarding Aam Aadmi Party’s allegation that the BJP was trying to poach its MLAs through huge monetary inducements as part of ‘Operation Lotus 2.0’. Was trying. Atishi had earlier claimed that the BJP approached many AAP MLAs by offering bribes and threats to get them on its side. “BJP has launched ‘Operation Lotus 2.0’ and is trying to topple the democratically elected AAP government in Delhi. BJP has contacted 7 AAP MLAs and said that Arvind Kejriwal will be arrested soon. And division will eat away at the party. They are in touch with our 21 MLAs and they are planning to use them to topple our government.
Each of those 7 MLAs has been offered Rs 25 crore. He ran ‘Operation Lotus’ to come to power through the backdoor in states where he was not democratically elected. Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are examples of this,” the AAP leader said. Meanwhile, after the Delhi Crime Branch sent summons on Saturday over poaching charges against the BJP, Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal accused the city police of playing ‘drama’ at the behest of its ‘politics’. Instead of curbing the rising crime wave in the capital, the masters…