New Delhi: After getting a major jolt Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today said the Election Commission (EC) has hit “a new low” by recommending that 20 AAP MLAs be disqualified for holding ‘offices of profit’, because the electoral body “didn’t give the legislators a chance to present their case”. Broom party has called the EC’s decision a “conspiracy” against the party that rode an anti-corruption wave to win Delhi by a landslide in 2015. It was also extremely critical of the EC chief AK Jyoti.
“Election Commission chief AK Jyoti is trying to repay Prime Minister Modi before he retires”, alleged AAP’s Saurabh Bhardwaj in a media conference called after news of the EC’s decision broke. In a tweet, he said that Jyoti, who turns 65 on January 23, will have to retire.
Another AAP leader called the EC’s decision “a new low” for the national electoral body, and alleged it is kowtowing to the ruling BJP and PM Modi.