Ahead of the crucial Delhi assembly elections in 2025, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, on Wednesday, alleged that BJP’s ‘CM face’, Parvesh Verma, gave Rs 1,100 cash to voters as shown in a viral video.
AAP chief media coordinator, Vikas Yogi, shared a video on X claiming the BJP distributed money openly in Delhi. He said the video was from “Parvesh Verma’s house.”
Soon after the video started doing rounds, the AAP chief in a series of posts on X said that the BJP leader was caught on camera distributing money. He further stated:
“If instead of abusing me for ten years you had done some work for the public then there would have been no need to buy votes like this in the elections today..”
Kejriwal citing sources claimed: “According to sources, BJP is going to declare Pravesh Verma as its CM face. Will the people of Delhi want to make such a person their CM?”
“Happy not distributing liquor like Arvind Kejriwal”: Parvesh Verma
Parvesh Verma, however, denied allegations that the BJP was “distributing cash to voters” in AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s constituency, saying that he was “happy” that he was not distributing liquor as Kejriwal did in Delhi.
“Yesterday, I saw Arvind Kejriwal’s tweet, and today I heard the press conference of Delhi’s temporary Chief Minister. AAP MP Sanjay Singh is also roaming around my house. Rashtriya Swabhiman Sansthan, started by my father around 25 years ago, has been helping people and has redeveloped two villages devastated by an earthquake in Gujarat and four villages in Odisha destroyed by a cyclone,” Verma told reporters.
He added that the organisation spent crores of rupees saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing oxygen concentrators and opening a care centre in West Delhi.
“Today, I feel very good that Atishi ji and Kejriwal ji are appreciating the work we are doing. I have witnessed the misery of women here, which Kejriwal ji could not see in the last 11 years. When I met them, they told me they neither have pensions nor ration cards, jobs, or access to medical facilities. I decided that my organisation would create a scheme to help them on a monthly basis,” he said.
“I am happy about one thing: at least I am not distributing liquor, which the Chief Minister of Delhi (Arvind Kejriwal) was distributing all over Delhi,” he added.
Assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025. In the 2020 elections, AAP won 62 of the 70 seats, while the BJP secured eight.
