New Delhi, Jan 21 (UNI) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Wednesday demanded that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) remove its Delhi convenor Saurabh Bharadwaj from his post and issue an apology to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities over his alleged remarks.
While speaking to reporters, Sachdeva hit out at the AAP, claiming that it is a known fact that after facing repeated electoral defeats, Bharadwaj has been making controversial statements merely to grab the headlines.
He said Bharadwaj’s recent comments were highly condemnable and reflected a pattern of irresponsible behaviour.
The BJP leader, referring to Bharadwaj’s statement made on Tuesday, said that it was condemnable and reflected a pattern of irresponsible behaviour in which the AAP leader commented regarding the appointments of both Presidents during the NDA government’s tenure.
The AAP Delhi Unit Chief said, “After becoming Prime Minister, Modi has not allowed any strong personality to occupy any important position. The new national president did not even have the political standing to be counted among the country’s ten thousand most significant leaders. He has made Chief Ministers in the BJP who had no political base of their own, leaders who will continue to appear insignificant before Modi even after decades. Even for the post of President, people were carefully chosen so that Modi alone appears as the only towering leader before them.”
Sachdeva also stated that Bharadwaj had also commented on the welcome address delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the BJP’s newly elected national president Nitin Nabin.
Quoting the last line of Saurabh Bharadwaj’s statement, Sachdeva claimed that the AAP leader had said, “They even searched for and appointed such people to the post of President before whom Modi alone appears to be the only big leader.”
Sachdeva countered the remarks by stating that when the NDA came to power, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee was the President and shared cordial relations with the government. He further said that, in keeping with the ideals of Dr. B R Ambedkar, the NDA later appointed Dr. Ram Nath Kovind from the Scheduled Caste community and Droupadi Murmu from the Scheduled Tribe community as Presidents of India.
Sachdeva also alleged that the statement made by Bharadwaj was at the behest of Arvind Kejriwal, and is an insult to Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Constitution, and the entire SC and ST communities.
