BJP and Congress today attacked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the alleged role of party MLA Naresh Yadav in desecration of a religious book in Punjab's Malerkotla.
Members of Delhi BJP's Minority Morcha staged a protest outside the office of Delhi unit of AAP, raising slogans against the accused MLA and party chief Arvind Kejriwal.
"It is really shameful that Aam Aadmi Party came to power harping on the agenda of changing the political system but today we find CM Kejriwal and his gang continuing the old game played by Congress of creating religious unrest to promote its political fortunes," Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadyaya said in a statement.
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He also demanded a statement by Kejriwal on Yadav's alleged role in the case of sacrilege in Malerkotla, asking what action will he take against the MLA.
The Minority Morcha workers will go to Punjab and tell the people how the Kejriwal government has "fooled" minorities on education and employment issues in Delhi, said Morcha president Atif Rasheed.
Meanwhile, Delhi Congress demanded a court-monitored CBI probe into the alleged role of Yadav in the incident.
DPCC chief spokesperson Sharmishtha Mukherjee termed AAP as a "B team" of BJP and following it in "polarising society" for political mileage.
"Collusion of the AAP MLA in the despicable act of desecration clearly proves that AAP was the 'B' team of BJP, as it was taking a leaf out of the acts of BJP to divide people before major elections to spread communal poison to polarise society on communal lines for deriving political mileage," she said in a statement.
The minority wing of DPCC will tomorrow stage a demonstration in Mehrauli, the Assembly constituency represented by Yadav, she said.
