After Kailash Gahlot's Resignation, AAP Alleges Probe Agency Pressure: 'He Had No Option'

Last Updated:November 17, 2024, 14:56 IST

AAP accused the BJP of "conspiring against their leaders" after Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the party.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh accuses BJP of hatching conspiracy after Kailash Gahlot's resignation | Image/File (PTI)

Moments after Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the cabinet and AAP’s primary membership on Sunday, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party charged the BJP for “conspiring against their leaders" by putting them under pressure using central probe agencies.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh stated that Gahlot had ‘no option’ but to leave the party as he came under pressure after Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax raids, which were held against him many times.

“Kailash Gahlot has been raided by the ED, Income Tax many times. He was part of the government for five years, and the BJP was continuously conspiring against him, he was left with no other option but to go with the BJP," AAP MP Sanjay Singh said.

He further noted that Kailash Gahlot, who held the Administrative Reforms, Transport, Home, Women and Child Development, and Information Technology portfolios in the Delhi Cabinet, is now speaking in the tone of BJP.

“The BJP tries this, they get successful sometimes, and sometimes not. He is now repeating what the BJP says, it is the conspiracy of the BJP," Singh was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

In 2018, Gahlot had come under the scanner of the Income Tax (IT) Department, which had carried out searches at several premises linked to him in connection with an alleged tax evasion case.

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