BJP takes jibe at AAP after Kailash Gehlot’s exit: ‘Arvind Aadmi Party’

BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot quit the party, accusing it of undergoing “political conversion” to become “Arvind Aadmi Party”.
“In his resignation, Kailash Gahlot has stated how Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has become a ‘khas” party which has undergone political conversion and moved away from all the values (the party stood for),” news agency PTI quoted Poonawala as saying.
Furthermore, the BJP leader also claimed that Kailash Gahlot has quit the party like several others in the past because AAP has moved away from the values it once stood for to serve the interests of Arvind Kejriwal.
“Every person who left the party was disillusioned because the Aam Aadmi Party has now become a party only for Arvind Kejriwal. It has become the Arvind Aadmi Party,” the BJP leader said.
“And those who used to promise that they would not join hands with the Congress and would not accept big houses, they became more busy in the ‘Sheeshmahal’ and started giving more importance to their personal interests,” he added.
Notably, Kailash Gahlot resigned from the party’s primary membership on Sunday. In his resignation letter addressed to Kejriwal and Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, Gahlot cited “unfulfilled promises” and “recent controversies” as reasons for stepping down.
Gahlot, who held the portfolios of Home, Administrative Reforms, IT and Women and Child Development, also resigned from the Council of Ministers of Delhi with immediate effect.
Poonawala said that it was not just Gahlot who had quit the party, “exposing” Kejriwal, but earlier, Anna Hazare, Yogendra Yadav and Kumar Vishwas had also said such things.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva welcomed Gahlot’s resignation and said that he took a “brave step”.
“Gahlot stepped down raising the same issues for which the BJP was protesting and fighting against Kejriwal and AAP. His resignation proves that even AAP leaders do not consider Kejriwal an honest politician,” Sachdeva said.