*AAP submits complaint to DGP Punjab about threats and offers of money to AAP MLAs to switch loyalties*
*We have proofs against BJP leaders and its agents for approaching AAP MLAs: Harpal Cheema*
Staunch workers of Arvind Kejriwal foiled attempt of BJP to topple AAP government in Punjab: Cheema
BJP is a serial killer of democracy and is threatening opposition party MLAs with ED and CBI: AAP
Chandigarh, September 14: Following the BJP’s futile attempt to bring down the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, the AAP lashed out at the saffron party on Wednesday, calling it a ‘serial killer’ of democracy and Condemned ‘ ‘Operation Lotus’ for the dubious manner in which elected governments in the country are being brought down.
Addressing a press conference here at party headquarter, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that BJP has murdered democracy by toppling elected governments in various states after using central investigation agencies and through money lures. It tried the same in Punjab, but the staunch soldiers of AAP foiled the BJP’s nefarious agenda. He said that BJP agents and workers from Delhi and Punjab have tried to break 35 MLAs of AAP to topple the government in Punjab. Cheema said that to expose the unholy tactics of the BJP, he along with AAP MLAs has filed a formal complaint along with all proofs to the Punjab Director General of Punjab (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav for a fair probe into this serious matter. A complaint against the BJP leaders and agents has been submitted before DGP for offering Rs 25 crore each to at least 10 MLAs in the state and also giving life threat to Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural and others for exposing their wicked agendas before public. Stating that BJP is baffled with growing popularity of AAP and its supremo Arvind Kejriwal. So the, BJP is now afraid of Kejriwal and is trying to stop him by any means. The work of horse-trading adopted by BJP has been going on in different states of the country. BJP under its Operation Lotus had earlier changed governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh. “In latest target under ‘Operation Lotus’, eight MLAs of Congress have shifted to the BJP in Goa today. It is a testament that BJP is killing democracy and forming their government in non-ruling BJP states by breaking MLAs with help of CBI, ED and money,” Cheema said.
He reiterated that BJP will never succeed in its wicked plans in Punjab even if they offer Rs 2200 crore because the loyal soldiers of AAP under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal and CM Bhagwant Mann are standing like a rock.
Jai Krishan Singh Rori (Deputy Speaker), Principal Buddha Ram, Kulwant Pandori, Manjit Singh Bilaspur , Dinesh Chadha, Raman Arora, Narinder Kaur, Rajneesh Dahiya, Rupinder Singh Happy, Sheetal Angural and Labh Singh Ugoke were present in the press conference.
