AAP To Meet President Next Week To Complain About BJP's "Operation Lotus"
NDTV
On the offensive over central agency's liquor policy probe against Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal-led party alleges BJP tried to buy its legislators
With a complaint against the BJP over alleged "buying" attempts, Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi legislators led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday. The party says the BJP has been misusing central government's agencies and offering "Rs 20 crore each" to some of its MLAs to switch sides. It cites the liquor policy probe against Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as an example of "the attempts to intimidate".
The appointment granted by the President on AAP's request is its next step after a session of the Delhi assembly, where it proved its numbers again in a display of unity and heft.
The trust vote, it stressed, had underlined the failure of "Operation Lotus", a term derived from the BJP's poll symbol, often used by Opposition parties to refer to "poaching" of MLAs by the Centre's ruling party.
The BJP has denied the allegations, and said the AAP is trying to divert attention from corruption cases.
