Ram Chander, a councillor for the Aam Aadmi Party, was allegedly “kidnapped” by the BJP on Sunday. The saffron party refuted the accusations as the “abducted” member made his way back to his home.
After his return, Chander stated that the opposition group had threatened him, claiming he was being set up in ED-CBI cases. Councilor Ram Chander, who represents Ward No. 28, was among the five individuals who became members of the BJP on Sunday. But after seeing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a dream a few days later, he changed his mind and joined the AAP again, he claimed.
Later, in a video message, he said that he was taken by some people to BJP headquarters.
“There they threatened me saying I would be framed by ED and CBI. My son Akash called the police helpline while our senior party leaders called the police commissioner. When they (BJP) got to know about it, they sent me back home,” Chander said in the video message.
I want to let the BJP know that I don’t fear the CBI or the ED. Nothing that I did was improper. He declared, “I am a soldier of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” in the AAP-shared video.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh posted a video of Ram Chander’s son Akash on X on Sunday, in which he claimed that his father had been taken hostage. In the video, Akash states, “We are standing downstairs near your house to meet you. My father received a call from an ex-BJP councillor.” My dad went to his office downstairs. We have discovered that four or five individuals abducted my father after threatening to accuse him in an ED-CBI case.
Taking to X, AAP MLA and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak accused the BJP of ”making a mockery of law and order” in Delhi.
“BJP councillor Ram Chander ji and his thugs kidnapped Aam Aadmi Party councillor Ram Chander ji. No one knows where they took him.”
“We are warning the entire Bharatiya Janata Party that we will create such a ruckus that the entire BJP will be shaken if Ram Chander ji is not brought back to his home in the next one to one and a half hours,” Pathak stated in Hindi on X.
Retaliating, Delhi BJP spokesman Praveen Shankar Kapoor charged Sisodia and the AAP MCD chief of “sensationalism” and “lies.”
Whether councillor Ram Chander is in your party or not, we are not bothered. It is certain that he is sitting at his residence while you are spreading rumours,” Kapoor reacted in a post on X in Hindi.
In the lead-up to the zonal ward committee elections of MCD on September 4, both AAP and BJP have claimed that councillors from the other side are ready to switch allegiance and defect from one party to another.
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