Amit Shah, Anurag Thakur tried to topple govt in Punjab; but Operation Lotus failed: AAP
India Today
AAP party accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur of toppling the Punjab government through operation Lotus.
A political firestorm erupted in Punjab after AAP MLA Sheetal Anugral accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur of toppling the Punjab government.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, AAP MLA Sheetal Angural said that three men, claiming to be high court lawyers, had offered him Rs 25 Crore on behalf of the BJP along with the assurance that a meeting would be arranged for him with Amit Shah and Anurag Thakur.
Sheetal Angural remarked that all this was done to topple the AAP government. He also claimed to have done a sting operation of 10-minutes, the clip of which was submitted to the vigilance department as evidence.
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"I am not accusing the country's home minister or the minister of information and broadcasting, but the three men whom I met had named them. The union government should probe the allegations," Sheetal Angural told India Today.
Reacting to the allegations levelled by the AAP MLA, several congress leaders like former Punjab Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Leader of Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa and Punjab Congress Chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring dared the AAP-led government to book Amit Shah and Anurag Thakur.
AAP Ministers, including Meet Hayer and Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, accused the Congress of being the B team of the BJP. Dhaliwal asked the congress why most of the members were out on the special day when voting was being held.
