AAP to file complaint with EC against BJP for 'planting' car with cash, liquor bottles

Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh on Thursday said his party will file a formal complaint against the BJP for allegedly “planting” a car with a fake number plate and keeping AAP's campaign material in it to defame them ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections.

“BJP planted a car with a fake number plate in Delhi. They kept AAP campaign material, cash, and liquor in that car and parked it outside Punjab Bhawan. We will give a written complaint to the Election Commission,” Singh said.

The Delhi Police had on Wednesday seized Rs 8 lakh in cash, some liquor bottles, and AAP pamphlets from a Punjab-registered car, which also had a ‘Punjab Government’ sticker on it.

The Punjab Transport Department also responded to the allegations, stating that the vehicle was using a ‘fake number plate’ and it did not belong to the Punjab Government.

“As per official records, it is found that the vehicle is registered in the name of Major Anubhav Shivpuri, who was posted in Army Dental College, Pathankot, three years back, and is a permanent resident of Khadki, Maharashtra. Moreover, the registered vehicle model is the Ford Eco Sport of make year 2018 but the actual vehicle apprehended by the police belongs to the Hyundai Creta series,” said an official.

This confirms that the vehicle's number plate is forged and fake, he said. “The registration plate visible in the video is an ordinary one, without the features of HSRP, hence easy to forge,” the official added.

Meanwhile, the issue has sparked a political storm with opposition leaders questioning the integrity of AAP’s election campaign. The AAP, however, accused the BJP saying the car seizure was a ‘planted stunt’.

Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva condemned the incident, calling it an alarming example of corruption.

“We always knew that Arvind Kejriwal institutionalised corruption in the Delhi government. He has polluted the Yamuna, choked Delhi’s air, and now he is corrupting the city’s political system,” he said.

Sachdeva said that in his 35 years of public life, he had never witnessed such a blatant misuse of government resources for electioneering.