New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Friday said that in the name of bringing change in the political landscape, Arvind Kejriwal formed the Aam Aadmi Party but rapidly turned from a party convener into a party dictator.

On a day when a faction of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MPs merged with the BJP, Sachdeva said Kejriwal misused power and dragged the party into the mire of corruption, as a result of which, from Shashi Bhushan to Raghav Chadha, all founding members of “AAP” have gradually distanced themselves from him.

The Delhi BJP President said that everyone has witnessed how Arvind Kejriwal ran a governance model of exploitation in Delhi for 10 years to expand his political base.

For more than four years now, he has not only been exploiting Punjab’s industry and farmers to fund political expansion in Gujarat and Goa but is also pushing Punjab’s youth into drug addiction, said Sachdeva.

Perhaps troubled by this, seven influential Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab and Delhi have announced their decision to leave AAP, which reflects their inner conscience, he said.

The Delhi BJP President further said that among those who have announced their resignation from AAP is the party’s Organization General Secretary Sandeep Pathak, which has shocked everyone across the country.

Sachdeva said that the resignation of Pathak raises several questions.

The Organisation General Secretary is the guardian of the party’s ideology, and his resignation indicates that both the party and its convener Arvind Kejriwal have deviated from their ideological path, he said.

Kejriwal must now introspect and review his working style, said Sachdeva even as seven out of the AAP’s 10 Rajya Sabha MPs announced the merger of their faction with the BJP.

Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that frustration and agitation were clearly visible on his face of AAP MP Sanjay Singh when he addressed the media following the exit of seven Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha and Swati Maliwal.

“It is unfortunate that Sanjay Singh, before calling his former colleagues — Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Swati Maliwal — traitors and reminding them of the party’s supposed favours, failed to recall that these three young leaders had dedicated 15 years of their lives to the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal and, in return, they are now being insulted,” he said.

–IANS

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