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AAP dares Congress, BJP to reveal fund source

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party has threatened to take legal action against BJP for making several attempts to malign its reputation by raising questions on the former’s funding pattern. A day after the Centre submitted in high court that it had found no violations in AAP’s fund collection, the party has once again challenged BJP to reveal its own sources of funding.“The UPA government has already cleared AAP’s name in this issue and for the second time in seven months, the Union home ministry has submitted to the court that no law has been violated through AAP’s collection of funds. It also failed to find any source of foreign donation to the party. We have maintained all along that our funding is being done through transparent means and have even put out details in the public domain.After the Centre’s submission in court, AAP has decided to initiate legal action against the Delhi BJP unit for trying to defame the party,” said a party spokesperson.AAP also referred to the affidavit filed by the home ministry on May this year which said: “The statement of bank accounts of AAP and its units were scrutinized to ascertain whether any donation received is from foreign sources …The details of contributions in excess of Rs 20,000 in 2012-13 filed by AAP with Election Commission of India were also collected and scrutinized. The passport numbers as mentioned in the contribution report of Election Commission of India were checked and it was found that they possess Indian passports.”Since November 1, the party has collected a little more than Rs 1.82 crore from 8,951 donors. People from 45 countries have donated to the party in this period.Challenging other parties, including BJP to make their funding transparent, AAP said that clean funding of politics would be one of its major agendas during the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.