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Sting operations dampen AAP
Sting Operations Dampen AAP. With barely a fortnight to go for the Delhi Assembly elections, it is the sting operation that has come to haunt the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), denigrating its clean image. Earlier, AAP President Arvind Kejriwal face was blackened in an ink attack, after a CD showed social activist Anna Hazare accusing him of misusing the funds collected during the campaign of India Against Corruption (IAC) with the latter at pains to come clean.
- Sans Anna & Bedi support, it finds the going tough
- Party alleges sting operation CDs doctored
- Forms panel to probe charges against functionaries
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New Delhi: With barely a fortnight to go for the Delhi Assembly elections, it is the sting operation that has come to haunt the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), denigrating its clean image. Earlier, AAP President Arvind Kejriwal face was blackened in an ink attack, after a CD showed social activist Anna Hazare accusing him of misusing the funds collected during the campaign of India Against Corruption (IAC) with the latter at pains to come clean. Now, it is yet another sting operation conducted by a media portal, mediasarkar.com that accuses prominent AAP candidate Shazia Ilmi of accepting funds through illegal means.
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav declared that the CDs were doctored with an intention to defame the AAP candidate, Shazia Ilmi. He said that the CDs were sent by the website and they had asked the Election Commission to investigate and give their findings within 48 hours. If found guilty, the party would withdraw candidates from the Delhi elections. The party would be filing a defamation suit against the website, as well as the channels that had aired it.
According to AAP leader Prashant Bhushan, they had asked for raw/unedited CDs from the news portal but they were not obliged with the same. He urged the poll panel to stop the circulation of the sting CD, which showed some AAP candidates to help push property deals and resolve financial disputes, in return for cash donations to the party. Shazia ilmi felt that it was the handiwork of big parties behind the sting operation.
She had offered to step down as a candidate but was told to wait till the time the EC came out with its findings.
