AAP claims 2 rebel MLAs lied on affidavit

NEW DELHI: AAP on Friday said the world saw two of its MLAs, Anil Bajpai and Devinder Sehrawat, join BJP, but they "lied on affidavit" about it.
"On May 3 and May 6 senior leaders of BJP held two press conferences and informed that two AAP MLAs had left AAP and joined the BJP. Yesterday when Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel sought a reply from these two MLAs on my disqualification petition, they said on oath that they had not joined BJP and continued to be in AAP," said AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj.
After playing the videos of the BJP press conferences, Bharadwaj said, "BJP even issued a press release to inform the media that the two MLAs have joined it. Yet, on sworn affidavits, Bajpai and Sehrawat have said they are in AAP and not BJP."
"The lawyers who represented BJP represented the two MLAs at the speaker's proceedings yesterday. They said the MLAs were part of AAP and newspapers lied about their defection," Bharadwaj said.
He questioned BJP's credibility. "This matter is now no longer about the two MLAs and AAP. It is about BJP. Now, BJP lawyers have said that the newspapers are lying. This is a betrayal of the press, not AAP," said Bharadwaj.
Bajpai said he had answered through his lawyers, while Sehrawat said he hadn't joined BJP but supported its ideology and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. "Newspaper reports can't be primary evidence in seeking an MLA's disqualification," Sehrawat said.