As Kailash Gahlot walks out of party, BJP, Cong. fire fresh salvo at AAP
The HinduThe Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on Sunday said the ruling Aam Aadmi Party is on the road to disintegration after Delhi Cabinet Minister Kailash Gahlot quit the party. The BJP trashed the charge and termed Delhi’s ruling AAP a sinking ship with its leaders deserting the party ahead of the Assembly poll due in February next year. ‘Left with no choice’ Slamming the BJP, AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh alleged that the BJP has been continuously “harassing” Mr. Gahlot through raids by the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation. Reacting to the accusations, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said Mr. Gahlot’s resignations is the “beginning of AAP’s end”. Gahlot has only validated Congress’s charges of corruption and misrule,” he said, adding that by mentioning the controversy surrounding the renovation of the then CM’s house, he struck the “final nail in AAP’s coffin”.