The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have engaged in disagreement over the latter’s declare that a number of BJP employees in Surat have joined AAP within the current days. The BJP, nevertheless, termed the AAP’s declare as “false propaganda”.
Several newly joined AAP members have posted on social media their images with the BJP metropolis president and receipts claiming their BJP membership.
According to the AAP, a number of BJP employees in Surat, which is the hometown of celebration’s state president C R Paatil, have joined AAP within the final 15 days.
AAP state spokesperson Yogesh Jadvani,”After the civic physique elections, over 1,000 folks, together with BJP employees and leaders, have joined AAP in several membership drives performed in Kamrej, Kasodara, Sarthana, Central Zone, Dindoli and Adajan areas of the town. In the Adajan space, which is a stronghold of BJP, over 400 folks have joined AAP. We are in a direct combat with BJP and our celebration is marching in the direction of changing into the second largest celebration in Gujarat.”
“The BJP workers who worked hard to make the party strong for the last 10-15 years, are feeling insulted and dissatisfied by the decisions taken by the party leaders. So they are leaving the party with their supporters and joining AAP,” State AAP president Gopal Italia stated including that BJP shouldn’t be recognizing efforts of the celebration leaders and employees after they go away the celebration.
Denying the claims, Surat metropolis BJP president Niranjan Janjmera challenged the AAP to share the main points of BJP members who joined them.
In a press briefing at BJP workplace in Udhna on June 21, Janjmera, stated, ”Surat BJP unit has round 4.50 lakh major members (prathmik sabhyo). The seats gained by BJP (within the civic physique polls) had gone up from 80 to 93… This exhibits the acceptance of the celebration among the many public. The AAP Surat unit is falsely propagating that enormous numbers of BJP employees have left their celebration to affix AAP. There is likely to be just a few employees who go away the celebration earlier than and after the elections. Apart from this, no different BJP employee had left the celebration.”
“The public meetings of AAP party in different areas have common faces… Even, when a private meeting is called at a private residential society, the AAP leaders reach there and click group photos with society residents and publish it on social media, claiming that all the residential society members have joined AAP.”
Reacting to the “challenge” by Janjmera, AAP member Vipul Sakhiya and some others have posted their photos with the town BJP president on social media, together with “receipts” claiming their membership in BJP.