After Kailash Gahlot’s Resignation, AAP Alleges Probe Agency Pressure: ‘He Had No Option’ – News18

Last Updated:November 17, 2024, 14:52 IST

AAP accused the BJP of “conspiring against their leaders” after Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the party.

Moments after Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the cabinet and AAP’s primary membership on Sunday, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party charged the BJP for “conspiring against their leaders” by putting them under pressure using central probe agencies.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh stated that Gahlot had ‘no option’ but to leave the party as he was pressurised by Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax raids many times in the past five years.

“Kailash Gahlot has been raided by the ED, Income Tax many times. He was part of the government for five years, and the BJP was continuously conspiring against him, he was left with no other option but to go with the BJP,” AAP MP Sanjay Singh said.

He further noted that Kailash Gahlot in his resignation letter to Kejriwal, spoke in the tone of BJP, accusing the Delhi government of failing to fulfil the promises made to the voters.

“The BJP tries this, they get successful sometimes, and sometimes not. He is now repeating what the BJP says, it is the conspiracy of the BJP,” Singh was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

In 2018, Gahlot had come under the scanner of the Income Tax (IT) Department, which had carried out searches at several premises linked to him in connection with an alleged tax evasion case.