Atishi danced as Kejriwal's ‘ploy to engineer her defeat failed’: Anurag Thakur

BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Sunday alleged that outgoing Delhi Chief Minister Atishi danced after coming to know that AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal's “ploy to engineer her defeat had failed”.

Thakur was commenting on a leaked video clip purportedly showing Atishi dancing after her victory from Kalkaji.

The defeat had revealed the fissures in top AAP leadership, Thakur said.

Atishi was among the select AAP leaders who won the polls as others, including Kejriwal and Manish Sidodia, lost the polls.

"Look at the politics of Arvind Kejriwal, (he) came into politics by climbing on the shoulders of Anna Hazare, finished him off, then formed his own party. He then finished off the founding members of his party," Thakur alleged.

Kejriwal's team worked against senior AAP leaders and ministers, but ultimately Kejriwal got the taste of his own medicine, he said.

"Atishi ji's name was missing from the election banner, posters and the entire (poll) campaign. Attempts were made to defeat her in her assembly constituency and that is why you saw her dance in the leaked video," Thakur said.

Thakur claimed that Atishi, like other Delhiites, was expressing her "happiness" over the defeat of the former chief minister and former deputy chief minister.