Atishi Claims Police Raided Bhagwant Mann’s Delhi Residence, EC Refutes – News18

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Mann, who has been campaigning for AAP within the upcoming Delhi Elections, has been residing in Kapurthala Home. Experiences had surfaced that Delhi Police performed a raid there for a search operation.
Atishi claimed ECI and Delhi Police raided Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Delhi. (PTI/File)
The Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) and Chief Minister Atishi claimed that Election Fee of India (ECI) officers and Delhi Police had raided Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Kapurthala Home on Thursday.
Mann, who has been campaigning for AAP within the upcoming Delhi Meeting Elections, has a residence in Delhi’s Kapurthala Home. The Election Fee crew reportedly performed a raid at Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Kapurthala Home, Delhi, for a search operation. Nonetheless, they claimed that they weren’t allowed to enter the premises.
“Delhi Police has reached to raid Bhagwant Mann ji’s home in Delhi. BJP individuals are distributing cash, footwear, sheets in broad daylight – that isn’t seen. As an alternative they go to raid the residence of an elected Chief Minister. Individuals of Delhi will give their reply on the fifth,” stated Atishi in a publish on X.
दिल्ली पुलिस @BhagwantMann जी के दिल्ली के घर पर रेड करने पहुँच गई है।भाजपा वाले दिन दहाड़े पैसे, जूते, चद्दर बांट रहे हैं- वो नहीं दिखता। बल्कि एक चुने हुए मुख्यमंत्री के निवास पर रेड करने पहुँच जाते हैं।
वाह री भाजपा! दिल्ली वाले 5 तारीख़ को जवाब देंगे!
— Atishi (@AtishiAAP) January 30, 2025
In the meantime, the ballot physique has refuted experiences of any raids at Kapurthala Home. Sources instructed News18 that raids are performed by investigation companies and was not a part of the ECI’s mandate. They stated EC doesn’t intervene in any sort of investigative process.
Responding to AAP’s declare on Bhagwant Mann’s home raid, Returning Officer OP Pandey stated, “Now we have acquired a criticism about cash distribution. Now we have to eliminate the criticism in 100 minutes. Our FST had come right here which was not allowed to enter. I’ve come right here to request them to allow us to enter together with a cameraperson. The criticism of cash distribution was acquired on the cVIGIL app.”
In the meantime, Mann hit out on the BJP throughout a press convention in Delhi, claiming that Parvesh Verma overtly admits that he’s distributing cash however the authorities all the time conduct raids towards him and social gathering chief Arvind Kejriwal. He denied doing something unsuitable, saying they joined politics to not cover their deeds however too battle towards folks like them (BJP leaders). “We had been doing effectively of their respective professions, why would we really feel the necessity to be a part of politics in the event that they did an excellent job,” Mann stated.
AAP’s marketing campaign was hit by a large controversy after Kejriwal claimed that Haryana was contaminating the Yamuna river with “poison” earlier than the water entered Delhi, sparking an uproar from each the BJP and Congress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah have hit out at Kejriwal for his remarks and stated the AAP’s defeat was imminent.
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The Election Fee of India had earlier sought a response from Kejriwal on his comment by 8 pm on Wednesday, replying to which the AAP chief stated that the uncooked water acquired from the neighbouring state was “extremely contaminated and intensely toxic” for human well being.
In a recent cost on the AAP supremo, the ballot physique requested him to not combine the problem of excessive ammonia in Yamuna water along with his allegations that the poison within the river would have led to a mass genocide. The ECI demanded Kejriwal to offer factual proof by 11 am on January 31.
Reacting to the second discover of the EC, Kejriwal stated, “Rajiv Kumar desires a post-retirement job. Nobody has ruined democracy as a lot as he has. The language he has used shouldn’t be the Election Fee’s job. He ought to contest the election from any seat in Delhi. We’ll ship three bottles to Rajiv Kumar as effectively. I do know they may arrest me in three days, allow them to achieve this, I’m not afraid.”
In the meantime, a court docket in Haryana’s Sonipat on Wednesday issued a discover to AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal over his declare that the BJP-ruled state was mixing “poison within the Yamuna” river, and requested him to look on February 17.