Delhi Today, Delhi Live News, August 25, 2022: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claims the BJP has set aside Rs 800 crore to bring down the Delhi government, buying 40MLAs for Rs 40 crore each.
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set aside nearly eight hundred crore rupees to buy down the Delhi government, in a series of tweets on Sunday. Mr Kejriwal tweeted that the BJP had offered a total of forty crore rupees ($80,000) for each of the forty legislators it needs for a simple majority in the assembly. The offer was made to a number of legislators earlier this month, who had indicated that they would vote against the government in the event of a confidence vote. Mr Kejriwal says he has evidence of the transaction, which he said would be made public on Monday.
August 25, 2022: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claims the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set aside more than one billion rupees to remove the Delhi government, with promises to buy down legislators for forty thousand rupees each. The BJP has not commented on the claims, but sources close to the party tell Delhilive they have the money and will use it if the circumstances require it. The BJP is currently in power in Delhi with the support of 24 MLAs. The AAP has 67 seats.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today claimed the BJP had spent over Rs 800 crore to buy 40 lawmakers with the aim of toppling the Delhi government, as the confrontation over the Delhi elections entered its final week. The BJP has refused to accept the Election Commission's order for a by-election for the Rajouri Garden seat, which it had won in the 2015 general election.
The political deadlock in the national capital has seen an increase in street protests, with the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) locked in a bitter war of words. The Congress has demanded that the EC refer the matter to the Supreme Court, while the BJP has accused the Congress of conspiring to bring down the Arvind Kejriwal government.
The BJP has spent over half a billion dollars to buy the support of just forty of Delhi’s seventy-two lawmakers, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed in an impassioned speech on Thursday. The BJP has set aside over eight hundred crore rupees to buy the loyalty of those legislators, who have been offered forty crore rupees to defect, the Chief Minister said. The allegation, which comes amid a deepening constitutional crisis in Delhi, is a clear sign that the crisis is far from being resolved. The government has been paralysed for weeks, as legislators continue to withhold their support for the Chief Minister, who has been on an indefinite leave of absence.
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