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New Delhi: After Delhi Chief Minister Atishi claimed to collect around 15 lakh rupees in just six hours from the crowdfunding for election campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit plans to approach the Election Commission to legally verify the sources of funds for AAP candidates.
Virendra Sachdeva, Delhi BJP President while speaking with the media said that AAP candidates may raise funds from force inimical to India and asked the poll panel to ensure that the information about the source of funds should be disclosed before the elections.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri also mocked the AAP gimmick of crowd funding its candidates’ campaign. “Why do they need crowdfunding, has the liquor scam funding been exhausted in the Goa election?” he asked.
He said the AAP’s claim on crowdfunding is “laughable”. “First, they mislead overseas people of Indian origin. Then they receive money from forces inimical to India to go and live in the homes of their sympathisers during the Punjab election,” he said.
Sachdeva said the AAP, which has been contesting elections since 2013, is now participating in its ninth election and, suddenly, the narrative being pushed by AAP leaders about raising election funds through crowdfunding has left the people of Delhi surprised.
“The public is wondering if this crowdfunding is a way to disguise the money saved from the liquor scam and the Goa election scandal, or if it is a ploy to convert money extorted through pressure on industrialists and officials in Punjab into political donations,” he said.
The Delhi BJP President added that it is highly suspicious that first Manish Sisodia, then Durgesh Pathak, and now Chief Minister Atishi are claiming to raise election funds through crowdfunding.
