55. (SOCIAL-40) HEAT ON DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
As the election campaign in Delhi reaches fever pitch, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) traded charges over a BJP advertisement in newspapers, purportedly targeting AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on his ‘gotra’ (clan) and raising questions over donations to his party.The two controversies prompted a war of words between the two main political adversaries in the capital with the BJP claiming that the AAP was “indulging in hawala at midnight” and the AAP accusing the BJP of insulting Mr. Kejriwal’s clan. Both rushed to the Election Commission to file complaints against each other. Demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into funding of Congress, BJP and itself, the AAP on Tuesday rubbished allegations of dubious funding and dared the government to launch any inquiry against it. Putting up a strong defence in the wake of controversy over receiv...