New Delhi : With the ongoing tussle between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Kirti Azad and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the row of alleged corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), the lawmaker is set to face the heat for ‘embarrassing’ the party.
“Party democracy t doesn’t give you the right to slander and then get prodded by the opposition in the Parliament and then you get embarrass the government in the Parliament, through tweets you provoke the leader and this entire episode amounts to gross indiscipline” BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh told ANI.
“It’s time for action. It is my feeling because it’s not giving good name to the party. Because this indiscipline is not giving good signal to party cadre,” he added.
When asked to respond on Azad’s claim that his twitter account was hacked, Singh asked if it took 24-hours for somebody to tell that his twitter account has been hacked.
BJP president Amit Shah has issued a statement defending Arun Jaitley, saying the party would stand united to defeat any conspiracy to malign his reputation.
“Mr. Jaitley’s public life has been one of high principles. The BJP will not allow AAP’s conspiracy to malign him to succeed,” Shah said.
The statement attacked the Aam Aadmi Party but did not mention the BJP’s own MP Kirti Azad, who has dared Jaitley to file a defamation case against him after his press conference.
The party has held back from naming Azad till now, even though Union ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi hinted at ‘action’ at the party-level.
