New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said BJP was running a campaign to politically isolate and defame the Jat community by the "wrongful" imprisonment of MLA Naresh Balyan and the delay in the approval of MLA Raghuvinder Shokeen's ministerial oath.
AAP's chief national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said Shokeen was appointed as the cabinet minister on Nov 18. "Aam Aadmi Party moved the file, but BJP is withholding it and did not allow him to take oath. There are many such examples where the BJP's hatred for the Jat community is evident," she said.
"Our MLA Naresh Balyan filed five complaints between 2022 and 2023, saying he was receiving ransom calls, with callers telling him the live location of his son," she said. "Instead of acting on this, BJP falsely implicated him in a case and sent him to jail. The day he got bail, terrorism charges were made against him."
A court sent Balyan to one day of judicial custody in an alleged organised crime case. The court sent Balyan to jail, considering that the arguments on the Delhi police application seeking his 10-day custody for interrogation under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act would take more time.
The BJP did not respond to the allegations.