Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal slammed the BJP over the Chandigarh mayoral election held on Tuesday and in contrast the saffron occasion to former US President Donald Trump.
“Even if they lose (the Lok Sabha elections) they won’t leave the chair like (Donald) Trump and will cling to it even if martial law is imposed,” stated Kejriwal.
AAP and the Congress, which had fashioned an alliance for the mayoral polls, had launched a video exhibiting the Presiding Officer of the election allegedly manipulating the poll papers.
The video was launched after the BJP candidate Manoj Kumar Sonkar gained the mayoral election after eight votes of the INDIA bloc candidates had been deemed invalid. Sonkar secured 16 votes out of the 36 complete polled votes whereas the INDIA bloc candidate Kuldeep Singh secured 12 votes, after eight votes had been declared invalid.
Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the day earlier than the election, the Chandigarh administration issued an order banning the entry of the media.
“This means the intention was bad from the beginning, and they had already made a plan to disrupt (the electoral procedure),” he added. The AAP chief stated that, thus far, the Chandigarh mayor polls have by no means seen such a excessive variety of votes declared invalid.
Elevating allegations of rigging the votes, he added, “At the big election, 90 crore votes are cast. I cannot imagine what level of fraud they would commit for that.”
Kejriwal stated the outcomes of the Chandigarh mayoral polls confirmed “the extent they can go to get power”.
For the Lok Sabha polls, the Delhi Chief Minister claimed EVM rigging would “definitely happen” and added, “I think they would do anything, there will be fraud on the voter list, fake votes would be cast, they would do everything to win.
And even if, by God’s grace, they do not win, they won’t leave the chair like (Donald) Trump and will cling to it even if martial law is imposed.”
Arvind Kejriwal said people who love the country “ought to oppose what occurred right this moment” and stop it from happening again.