NEW DELHI: Former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Rajesh Garg on Tuesday alleged that during government formation, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had given his consent to fake calls made to party MLAs in the name of senior BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley offering them money to support the BJP.

Garg has alleged that the plan was to accuse the Bharatiya Janata Party of horse-trading.

The former AAP MLA said that he, along with other MLAs, had received calls offering money to support the Bharatiya Janata Party and this was done with Arvind Kejriwal's consent.

He also alleged that all the calls were made through unknown numbers.

"The calls were made with Arvind Kejriwal's consent from private numbers. We have evidence regarding the same," Rajesh Garg said, claiming that he had also received a similar call.

"People called for the AAP's NC meeting were their (Arvind and team) 'yes men', many important people were not called," Garg said.

"During initial phase of government formation, I myself received a call which said they were calling from Jaitley-ji's office. I was offered Rs 10 crore for supporting the BJP. We had a party meeting at the Constitution Club. I had got it from a private number," he added.

He further said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took the whole matter very lightly and laughed it off.

"When we were forming the government by opinion poll, I had written a letter saying that Arun Jaitley had offered us this amount to support them. The media had then asked me for evidence," he added.

The ex-AAP MLA further said he had also lodged a complaint with the police in this regard.

"Some more MLAs got same kind of calls. I took a screenshot of number and lodged the police complaint. After that police arrested a man during investigation. Following that, I got a call from Arvind's PA and Sanjay Singh asking me to withdraw the complaint. They asked me not to pursue the matter," he said.

A few days ago, Garg had released an audio tape which purportedly showed Kejriwal asking him to poach six Congress MLAs. The AAP suspended Garg and dismissed the audio tape, saying it was an attempt to defame the party.

Meanwhile, the Aam Admi Party is going through a major crisis although Kejriwal has stressed that everything is alright.

The bitter infighting in the party and the crackdown on dissidents who had challenged Kejriwal’s leadership have now spilled into the open with Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan having been kicked out of the National Executive.

AAP also unceremoniously sacked its internal Lokpal Admiral Ramdas after he criticized the party leadership.