New Delhi: Conman Sukesh Chandrashekharhas written yet another letter, a fourth one. This time he has alleged that he was forced to bring “over 20 people to contribute Rs 500 crore towards the Aam Aadmi Party. He further alleged that jailed Delhi minister Satyender Jain asked him to pay money to AAP for Goa and Punjab elections.
Chandrashekhar asked Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders to stop the drama of not knowing him. He dismissed AAP’s allegations that he is trying to malign Kejriwal’s image, Jain and the party at the behest of the BJP ahead of the Delhi MCD elections.
AAP is seeing this as BJP’s “desperate attempts to deflect attention” from the election in Gujarat and the Morbi bridge collapse there on October 30, in which 135 people died. Several AAP leaders have reiterated the charge that the BJP is behind the letters as it is “in panic” ahead of assembly polls in Gujarat and municipal polls in Delhi in which “it can foresee a defeat”.
“Sukesh Chandrashekhar has become the BJP’s star campaigner and the party is fighting these elections with the support of a thug,” said AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj.
BJP’s Sambit Patra said, “It is learned from news that there has been a thuggery in the house of a thug. And the name of the thug is Sukesh Chandrashekhar. And the person who cheated the thug is Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain.”
Delhi BJP has demanded a CBI probe into jailed Chandrashekhar’s claims that he had bribed the AAP. State BJP president Adesh Gupta also demanded the transfer of jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain from the capital to a prison either in Uttar Pradesh or Haryana.
BJP MP Parvesh Verma, too, demanded Jain’s transfer to a prison in any state except the AAP-ruled Punjab. “If Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia gets arrested in the liquor scam as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claims, he too should not be kept in any Delhi jail,” Verma said.
Jain is in jail in connection with a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate.
