Gandhinagar: Aam Aadmi Party has claimed that a candidate from Surat, Kanchan Jariwala, was kidnapped and forced to withdraw his nomination from the upcoming Assembly Polls. “BJP has kidnapped AAP candidate Kanchan Jariwala,” Manish Sisodia told reporters.
Shortly after Sisodia made these claims, Jariwala had surfaced and had been brought to the Gujarat election returning office surrounded by 500 policemen.
#WATCH | Gujarat: AAP candidate from Surat (East) from Gujarat, Kanchan Jariwala, takes back his nomination after he was allegedly kidnapped last evening pic.twitter.com/E1vqqkveNi
— ANI (@ANI) November 16, 2022
“There is pressure on him to withdraw his nomination. He has been forced to sit in the poll office and is being pressured by policemen. I want to tell the Election commission that this is an open threat to democracy,” Sisodia claimed.
AAP’s Raghav Chaddha posted a video of Kanchan being dragged and forced to withdraw his nomination.
He tweeted, “Watch how police and BJP goons together – dragged our Surat East candidate Kanchan Jariwala to the RO office, forcing him to withdraw his nomination The term ‘free and fair election’ has become a joke!”
Watch how police and BJP goons together – dragged our Surat East candidate Kanchan Jariwala to the RO office, forcing him to withdraw his nomination
The term ‘free and fair election’ has become a joke! pic.twitter.com/CY32TrUZx8
— Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) November 16, 2022
The BJP was “panicking” about losing the Gujarat election and had therefore resorted to kidnapping an AAP candidate, Manish Sisodia claimed, NDTV reported.
“Kanchan and his family have been missing since yesterday. He had gone to get his nomination papers scrutinized. The moment he came out of the office after getting his nomination scrutinized, BJP’s goons took him away. Now it is not known where he is,” Manish Sisodia said.
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“This is dangerous. This is the kidnapping of democracy, not just a candidate,” he added.
Several other senior AAP leaders have also tweeted about the allegation.
The Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “Our candidate from Surat (East), Kanchan Jariwala, and his family missing since yesterday. First, BJP tried to get his nomination rejected. But his nomination was accepted. Later, he was being pressurised to withdraw his nomination. Has he been kidnapped?”
Our candidate from Surat (East), Kanchan Jariwala, and his family missing since yesterday. First, BJP tried to get his nomination rejected. But his nomination was accepted. Later, he was being pressurised to withdraw his nomination.
Has he been kidnapped?
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 16, 2022
The BJP has not yet responded on the allegations by the AAP.
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