New Delhi [India]: Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of kidnapping party Councillor Ram Chandra, who represents Bawana’s Shahabad Dairy in the civic body, after which the BJP denied the charges and hit back at AAP for “fake sensationalism.”
Ram Chandra is one of the councillors who left AAP and joined the BJP and, four days later, traced his steps back to join his AAP.
The councillor, in a video message, alleged that he was forcibly picked up by several BJP men.
“I am a municipal councillor from Bawana Ward 28. In the morning, five or six people came to my house and took me to the BJP office in a car. There they threatened me with CBI and ED. They said something wrong will happen to you. After my son and the senior leader of the party dialled to police, then after which they dropped me at my place,” Ramchandra said in a self-made video.
“I am not scared of CBI and ED. I am a true soldier of Arvind Kejriwal,” he added.
Senior party leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh also alleged that Chander has been abducted by the BJP.
“BJP threatened councillor ji with ED CBI. When he did not get scared, BJP goons took him away in a car,” Sisodia said in a post on X.
Sanjay Singh shared a video of a councillor’s son, Akash Ram Chandra, where he alleged that his father was forcibly abducted from his office by a local BJP leader and his aides.
“The leader came to meet his father this morning. They threatened my father with ED and CBI raids and then took him away in their car. I don’t know where they have taken him; I’m going to look for him right now,” he alleged.
“BJP’s open hooliganism in the country’s capital, councillor Ram Chandra, has been kidnapped after being threatened. He has been threatened to be defamed by using ED and CBI. Listen to his son Akash. What is happening in Delhi,” Singh stated in his post accompanied by the video.
However, the Bharatiya Janata Party has denied the charges by AAP and accused the party of “fake sensationalism.”
Delhi BJP’s media in-charge, Praveen Shankar Kapoor said in a post on X, “You guys are the kings of fake sensationalism. Councillor Ram Chandra is not in your party. We have nothing to do with it, but it is certain that he is sitting in his house and you people are spreading rumours.”
Meanwhile, the assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025.
The AAP registered a landslide win in the 2020 elections sweeping 62 out of the 70 seats, while the BJP managed to win 8 seats. Congress could not win a single seat in the elections.