AAP seeks urgent appointment with ECI, says “responsibility of poll body to ensure level playing field”

March 23, 2024

New Delhi : The Aam Aadmi Party has sought an urgent appointment with the Election Commission to ensure a level playing field in the Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Minister Atishi said on Saturday.

Atishi claimed that despite the representation made to the ECI by the INDIA bloc leaders on Friday, Income Tax conducted a raid on one of the AAP MLAs and further claimed that their party office has been sealed in the national capital.

In a post on X, Atishi said, “Aam Aadmi Party has sought an urgent appointment with the Election Commission, to ensure a level playing field in the Lok Sabha elections. Despite the representation made yesterday.

Today, the Aam Aadmi Party office was sealed. Lok Sabha candidates and party leaders could not come to the party office for campaign meetings. There was an IT Dept raid on the home of one of our MLAs. It is the responsibility given by the Indian Constitution to the @ECISVEEP to ensure a level playing field.”

The Income Tax Department (IT) is conducting searches at the premises of Delhi AAP MLA Gulab Singh Yadav on Saturday. Gulab Singh Yadav is the AAP MLA from Delhi’s Matiala seat. He is a two-time MLA.

Following the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the INDIA bloc on Friday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India urging its intervention in the “targeting of opposition leaders” by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party through the “misuse of central agencies”.