Ajay Maken Reveals AAP’s 7 RS MPs Average Worth of Rs 818 Crore Amid Defections to BJP | India News

The political arena heated up with the Congress voicing its displeasure over AAP’s Rajya Sabha nominees, branding them elite with an impressive average net worth of Rs 818 crore. Ajay Maken argues that the AAP acts as a puppet of the BJP, orchestrated to disrupt Congress’s support in the upcoming state elections.

New Delhi: With the accession of seven Rajya Sabha MPs of AAP BJPThe Congress has said that Arvind Kejriwal has nominated members to the upper house based on their financial muscle, claiming that the current defectors are worth an average of Rs 818 crore.Congress Treasurer Ajay Maken said in a press conference that the seven who left AAP for BJP were millionaires who had never made a statement in favor of AAP until they were nominated to Parliament. “How is this Aam Aadmi? Kejriwal should change the name of the party to ‘Kotipati Aadmi’,” he said.“I tried to calculate the net worth of seven MPs, but the sum was mind boggling. So, I settled on an average. And, it exceeds Rs 818 crore per MP,” Maken said.Maken claimed that he had always known about the RS nomination in AAP, as Sushil Gupta, a Congress office bearer, had approached him in 2017 and asked him to resign from the party membership as “he had a ‘setting’ in AAP and would be made an RS MP”.He said the defection to the BJP exposed the fact that the BJP had created AAP as a proxy to counter the Congress, which it could not fight till 2014. “The two best administrators India has ever seen were Sheila Dixit and Manmohan Singh, and Kejriwal was used to defame them … it brought the BJP to power,” he said.Maken said AAP fights elections in states where Congress and BJP compete directly and gives advantage to BJP by splitting votes to name Haryana, Goa, Gujarat.“We always knew the reality but the mask has now fallen for the Bharat Bloc partners and we hope they will see the reality of AAP,” he said, as he forged an electoral alliance with Congress Kejriwal under pressure from Bharat allies.He claimed that the BJP is playing a dangerous game of defections as it now has 86% of Punjab’s MPs while it polled only 6.6% in the 2022 state elections. “The separatists claim that the voice of Punjab is being suppressed. The BJP’s game of capturing Punjab MPs is only handing out the separatists,” he said, adding that there is already a pattern of drama that separatism and terrorism – drugs, gang wars, criminals, are now rampant in AAP-ruled Punjab.