New Delhi:
On Tuesday afternoon, a court in Delhi broke the complaint of a BJP leader against Delhi’s prime minister, Atishi, who had been summoned in relation to the charges. The Rouse Avenue Court of the city, when annulling the citation, said that the comment of the AAP leader had been made against the opposition party as a whole and not to individual members of the organization.
In April of last year, Atishi, then a minister of the former principal, Arvind Kejriwal, the cabinet that she and other leaders of AAP had been contacted by individuals linked to the BJP, demanding that he would join the party or face ‘arrest’ by the Directorate of Confaction of the Law within a month.
Subsequently, the BJP Praveen Shankar Kapoor presented a case.
Insisting the statements of Atishi and other AAP leaders against the BJP were false, Mr. Kapoor complained that none of them had provided any material to corroborate their accusations.
This was a month before Delhi voted in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The ruling of the Court of Rouse Avenue will come as relief for the main minister of AAP and Delhi, since each one prepares for the Delhi elections next week; Atishi is defending the re -election of his Kalkaji seat.
Furore about the statement ‘joined BJP or …’ of Atishi occurred when AAP’s leaders, including Mr. Kejriwal and his former deputy, Manish Sisodia, were in jail for corruption charges linked to the alleged scam of Delhi’s special tax policy. Atishi, at that time (when Mr. Kejriwal was in jail), he was one of the two high profile leaders of the party, the other was the great Kailash Mla Saurabh Bhardwaj.
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