Manish Sisodia brazens out AAP’s ticket promoting, offers a weird excuse
After the arrest of AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh and others for promoting tickets for MCD elections for ₹90 lakh, Delhi deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief, Manish Sisodia gave a weird excuse claiming that the arrest by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) “prove” that AAP doesn’t promote tickets.
“Tickets are not sold in AAP, even if someone pays for it and someone else takes it. This is what this series of events has demonstrated. Someone paid for a ticket and someone took it, but none were actually sold, proving that tickets are not sold in AAP, I demand an unbiased investigation into the matter” Manish Sisodia instructed the media on Wednesday (November 16).
Tickets will not be bought in AAP. Someone paid cash for a ticket & cash was taken too however ticket was not bought, it makes it clear that no tickets are bought in AAP. I would like an unbiased investigation within the matter: AAP Leader & Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia pic.twitter.com/JsIZvwiUlF
— The Times Of India (@timesofindia) November 16, 2022
Earlier right this moment (November 16), the ACB arrested AAP Model Town MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh, Tripathi’s Personal Assistant (PA) Shiv Shankar Pandey alias Vishal Pandey, and Prince Raghuvanshi on the accusation of accepting bribes for Municipal Election tickets in Delhi.
They have been arrested underneath related sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and part 171 (E) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to experiences, money value Rs 33 lakh was recovered from their possession.
But Sisodia is claiming AAP doesn’t promote tickets as a result of the particular person from whom cash was taken within the promise of giving ticket was truly not allotted the ticket by the occasion. Om Singh and his aides have been arrested after one Gopal Khari had filed a grievance that whereas they’d taken ₹45 lakh promising ticket to his spouse for the Municipal Elections in Delhi, her title didn’t characteristic within the record of candidates launched by AAP on November 12.
Notably, Gopal Khari in his grievance to the Additional CP alleged that on November 9, he went to AAP MLA Akhilesh Tripathi’s workplace in search of a ticket for his spouse for the upcoming MCD elections. Khari claimed that he was instructed that he must pay Rs 90 lakh for the ticket. Gopal claimed that he gave Rs 20 lakh to MLA Rajesh Gupta and after that gave Rs 35 lakh to MLA Akhilesh Tripathi. The stability ₹35 crore was to be paid after his spouse will get the ticket.
However, when the record of candidates was launched by AAP on November 12, Gopal Khari’s spouse’s title was not on the record. Reportedly, accused Om Singh instructed Gopal to take his a refund and guaranteed him that his spouse will the ticket subsequent time. Gopal alleged that he was “blackmailed in the name of giving a ticket.”
The Anti-Corruption Bureau workforce arrange a lure at Khari’s home and caught the accused trio red-handed. According to the police, the accused got here to return the bribe on behalf of Model Town AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi.
In its assertion, ACB acknowledged that the accused individuals have been arrested based mostly on the grievance of 1 Gopal Khari, a resident of Warn No 69, Kamla Nagar. ACB mentioned, “Anti-Corruption Branch, GNCT of Delhi arrested one Om Singh R/o H-3, First Floor, Type-V, Model Town, Delhi (official residence of MLA Model Town) reportedly brother-in-law of Sh. Akhilesh Pati Tripathi, MLA/Model Town, AAP, and his associates, namely Shiv Shankar Pandey, a.k.a. Vishal Pandey, PA of Sh. Akhilesh Pati Tripathi, MLA/Model Town, AAP and Prince Raghuvanshi U/s 7/13 of POC Act and 171 (E) of IPC, i.e. for accepting a bribe for giving an AAP ticket of MCD election to Ms Shobha Khari wife of the complainant Sh. Gopal Khari for Ward No. 69, Kamla Nagar.”
