New Delhi: After a sting operation was conducted by a news portal, they alleged the Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party and some of his key leaders of raising funds illegally, they made these allegations in a press meet held by the portal on Thursday November 21.
On which Arvind Kejriwal said that the tape and the allegations made against the key leaders were doctored.
The website that aired it denoted in the press conference stating that they would hand over the raw footage to the Election Commission.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Shazia Ilmi Thursday night offered to withdraw her candidature from Delhi assembly elections after a media portal claimed to have done a sting operation on her and the party’s other senior leaders and alleged they were involved in “raising funds through illegal means.”
While withdrawing her nomination she said, “It is an extremely important fight for AAP. But because of the underhand shoddy sting operation, I will not allow my party’s image to be sullied. I offer to withdraw my candidature and not contest elections until and unless my name is cleared.”
The sting operation was conducted by Media Sarkar, they accused several leaders of AAP. According to Media Sarkar, APP leaders in the need to raise funds contacted individuals and offered them help in cases such as land deals and money recovery. In exchange they asked for cash donations.
AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal dismissed the sting operation as a conspiracy against his party but said it will not compromise on the issue of corruption.
They also confirmed saying, “We will not spare anyone if found guilty.” Moreover APP also said that theses conspiracies are been made by opposition parties such as BJP and Congress.
The sting operations were also done on AAP leader Kumar Vishwas and candidates from Kondli (Manoj Kumar), Sangam Vihar (Dinesh Mohaniya), Okhla (Irfan Ullah Khan), Rohtas Nagar (Mukesh Hooda), Deoli (Prakash) and Palam (Bhawna Gaur).
About the Video
The video shows a reporter meeting Ilmi posing as a representative of a company and sought her help to teach a lesson to a rival company. Initially, Ilmi refused to help the reporter without legal documents but later allegedly agreed to help her even without documents when the reporter offered her donations in cash. Ilmi is also shown in the video allegedly telling the reporter that the party accepts donations in cash. Ilmi is a candidate of AAP from RK Puram assembly constituency.
After the sting operation, AAP convened an emergency meeting of its political affairs committee which decided to take action against the candidates within 24 hours after going through the CD of the sting operation. “We will decide in 24 hours on the issue after going through content of the CD,” Aam Admi Party leader Yogendra Yadav said after the meeting.
