Senior AAP leader and Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday levelled serious allegations against the ruling BJP for the forcible withdrawal of the papers of his party’s Surat East candidate in Gujarat after kidnapping him.
Sisodia, accompanied by his supporters, later reached the office of the Election Commission of India (ECI), “Nirvachan Sadan,” on Ashoka Road in New Delhi, demanding action in this regard. Sisodia claimed in a series of Hindi tweets that “BJP goons in Gujarat kidnapped AAP Surat East candidate Kanchan Jariwala and then forced him to withdraw his nomination after putting police pressure on him.”
“What is the fun of holding elections in such a situation?” he questioned.
In another tweet, he alleged, “BJP is murdering democracy by kidnapping AAP’s Gujarat candidates and forcibly withdrawing their nominations. I have come to appeal against it at the Election Commission of India office.”
Speaking to the media outside the ECI office, Sisodia urged the chief election commissioner (CEC) to provide time to meet him as this was an emergency situation.
In another tweet, Delhi’s deputy chief minister said, “The candidate was kidnapped. His nomination was withdrawn at gunpoint.”
