BJP launches offensive, says Kejriwal must quit

NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP on Thursday demanded the resignation of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over the alleged sex scandal that has hit his cabinet.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP on Thursday demanded the resignation of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over the alleged sex scandal that has hit his cabinet.

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“His government has become a government of scamsters, people with no morals and persons indulging in forgery and extortion,” BJP Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay said while addressing reporters.

The BJP leader demanded that MLAs who have allegations of harassing women or similar complaints against them should be expelled from the Assembly. “Kejriwal took action against the minister under the pressure of the media and to hide his incompetence,” Upadhyay said.

Earlier in the day, Upadhyay led hundreds of BJP workers who protested outside Kejriwal’s Civil Lines residence. They raised slogans against expelled minister Sandeep Kumar and the Delhi government. Police used water cannon to disperse the crowd.

New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi questioned the AAP claim that they had chosen their candidates after proper scrutiny.

“It has become difficult for him (Kejrwal) to face the people under the prevailing circumstances. His MLAs are involved in anarchy, harassment of women, bribery, extortion and scams and now sexual misconduct,” Lekhi said.

Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta said Kejriwal was a man of “double standards”.

“He suspended BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma for insulting a woman MLA in a controversial debate but today he is sitting with Sandeep Kumar, Somnath Bharti, Manoj Kumar, Dinesh Mohania, Amanatullah Khan, Prakash Jarwal, Sharad Chauhan and Rajesh Rishi -- all accused of sexual misconduct,” Gupta said while addressing protesters outside the CM’s residence.

“If Kejriwal wants to repent, he should dismiss all of them from the Assembly and get Sandeep Kumar arrested,” Gupta said.

MP FILES COMPLAINT

West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma filed a complaint against San deep Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, and deputy CM Manish Sisodia on Thursday evening for allegedly misusing their public authority against women. Verma was accompanied by Manjinder Singh Sirsa, advisor to deputy CM, Punjab, Ravindra Gupta, former mayor, Anil Sharma, former MLA, and others. He met Delhi Police commissioner Alok Kumar Verma to file the complaint.

The BJP MP in the complaint mentioned the “objectionable” video in which Kumar, Delhi’s former women and child development minister, was seen in a compromising position with two women.

The MP accused Kejriwal and Sisodia of protecting the minister for the past 15 days despite knowing the offence committed by the minister.