‘Will file defamation suit against AAP leaders’

NEW DELHI: BJP leader and New Delhi Municipal Council vice-chairman Karan Singh Tanwar on Wednesday said he will sue AAP leaders Surinder Singh, Dilip Pandey and

NEW DELHI: BJP leader and New Delhi Municipal Council vice-chairman Karan Singh Tanwar on Wednesday said he will sue AAP leaders Surinder Singh, Dilip Pandey and Amanatullah Khan for allegedly targeting him in a lawyer’s murder case.

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“I will file defamation suit against these three -- both criminal and civil cases. I am being portrayed as a murderer in the NDMC lawyer murder case. I am being targeted by Arvind Kejriwal ever since I became vice-chairman of NDMC. My flawless political career is being tarnished for the past one month. Should I be hanged for writing a letter for the benefit of people who come to me?” he said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Tanwar said the AAP was playing “ridiculous and bad politics” on the murder of MM Khan, a legal adviser to NDMC who was shot dead near his house in Jamia Nagar last month.

“Kejriwal and his party are twisting the facts of the case. They are levelling baseless allegations against me just to malign the image of my party and diverting the attention from the real culprits,” the BJP leader said.

AAP MLA Surinder Singh said he stood by his allegations against Tanwar.

“If speaking the truth makes him file cases against me, I don’t care. He has already filed one case against me here, one complaint in the Election Commission and another in Haryana. I fought enemies at the border and will fight traitors like him inside the country. He can file 10 cases against me but I won’t get scared. He has a hand in getting a truthful officer murdered. The BJP should suspend him. I will speak the truth without getting scared,” Singh said.

Tanwar demanded probe into call details, bank accounts of Kejriwal and his party MLA and NDMC member Surinder Singh to determine their relations with the accused hotel owner.