The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has levelled serious allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that BJP members “kidnapped” its councillor, Ram Chander. The charges have surfaced amid ongoing tensions as Delhi gears up for the MCD elections. Ram Chander, who recently returned to the AAP after initially joining the BJP, claimed that he was threatened with false ED and CBI cases at the BJP headquarters. The BJP has rejected these allegations as baseless, while both parties continue to engage in a heated exchange over the incident and the upcoming elections.
On his return, Chander claimed that the opposition group had threatened him on the pretext of being framed in ED-CBI cases. Ram Chander, who is a councillor from ward no 28, was one of the five members who joined the BJP last Sunday. However, a few days later, he changed his mind after seeing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his dream and returned to AAP, he said. Later, in a video message, he said that some people took him to the BJP headquarters.
“There they threatened me that the ED and CBI would frame me. My son Akash called the police helpline while our party leaders called the police commissioner. When they (the BJP) came to know about it, they sent me back home,” Chander said in the video message.
“I want to tell the BJP that I am not afraid of ED or CBI. I have done nothing wrong. I am a soldier of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” he said in the video shared by AAP.
On Sunday, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh shared a video of Ram Chander’s son Akash on X, alleging that his father had been kidnapped.
In the video, Akash says, “My father received a call from a former BJP councillor who said, ‘We are downstairs near your house to meet you’. My father went down to his office. What we have learnt is that there were four to five people who threatened my father that he would be implicated by the ED-CBI and took him away. We are looking for him.”
Responding to Singh’s post, party leader Manish Sisodia reiterated the allegations levelled by Akash. In an interview with X, AAP MP and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak accused the BJP of “making a mockery of law and order” in Delhi.
“Aam Aadmi Party councillor Ram Chander ji was abducted by BJP councillor… along with his goons and no one knows where Ramchand ji was taken.
“We are giving this warning to the entire Bharatiya Janata Party that if Ram Chander ji is not brought back to his home in the next hour or hour and a half, we will create such a ruckus that the entire BJP will be shaken,” Pathak said in X in Hindi.
In response, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor accused Sisodia and the AAP MCD in-charge of “lies” and “sensationalism”.
“We are not concerned whether Councillor Ram Chander belongs to your party or not. It is certain that he is sitting at his residence while you are spreading rumours,” Kapoor reacted in a post on X in Hindi.
Ahead of the MCD zonal committee elections on September 4, both the AAP and the BJP have claimed that councillors on the other side are ready to switch loyalties and defect from one party to the other.
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