In her missive to the RO, Atishi alleged Bidhuri's nephew threatened AAP workers successful the constituency and told them to “sit astatine home” oregon they would person their “arms and legs broken” (Express Photo)
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, who is contesting the Assembly polls from the Kalkaji Assembly constituency, wrote to the Returning Officer (RO) of the constituency alleging that her enactment members were being threatened by BJP campaigner Ramesh Bidhuri’s supporters, including by his nephew. The BJP, meanwhile, said AAP main Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi are making these allegations due to the fact that they cognize they are losing the elections.
Atishi is going up against erstwhile South Delhi MP Bidhuri and Congress’s Alka Lamba.
In her missive to the RO, Atishi alleged Bidhuri’s nephew threatened AAP workers successful the constituency and told them to “sit astatine home” oregon they would person their “arms and legs broken”.
Naming 3 men, who she claimed were BJP members, Atishi said they had threatened AAP’s Sanjay Gupta and others, “hurled abuses, grabbed him by the collar and threatened him with carnal harm”.
She alleged this was not the archetypal clip that her enactment colleagues had been threatened. “A akin incidental took spot 3-4 days agone erstwhile BJP workers slapped an AAP idiosyncratic doing door-to-door campaigning,” she wrote.
In response, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said, “Both these AAP leaders, on with respective ministers and elder leaders, are sensing defeat. Instead of focusing connected contesting the elections together, AAP leaders are preparing to blasted their decision connected the BJP and the Election Commission. AAP leaders successful the New Delhi Assembly (Kejriwal’s constituency) are preparing for post-defeat scenarios… Now, Atishi has besides started corresponding with the Election Commission to make excuses for her apt defeat.”
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