NEW DELHI: Retaliating to the various exposes that Aam Aadmi Party has carried out against senior BJP functionaries in the recent past, BJP on Monday released a list of 20 complaints filed against AAP's candidate from Bawana, Ved Prakash, claiming that the party had gone back on its promise of fielding clean candidates.

The complaints range from defacement of public property, threatening his neighbour with death and possession of unlicensed firearm to rioting. The list also includes cases filed against the candidate's family members. AAP, meanwhile, defended Prakash, saying that they had conducted a thorough background check and found no case against him, except one for defacement of property which was not a heinous crime. The BJP letter claims that Kejriwal had promised a corruption-free Delhi and that "corruption and criminality run in Prakash's blood" since the letter has listed cases against his family members, too.

The list being circulated by BJP and signed by "a member of AAP" lists two FIRs against Prakash, one filed in 1994 for 'disruption of peace and rioting' and the other in 2013 for defacement of government property. There are three separate complaints of threat to life, filed by Prakash's neighbour while two complaints have been made by Prakash himself, alleging kidnapping and threat to life, both of which have allegedly been found to be "false" by the court.

Prakash said that this is an attempt to malign his reputation and has threatened to sue BJP for defamation. "I had been kidnapped 20 years ago and was even admitted to RML Hospital. There is no criminal case against me and I challenge BJP to prove to the contrary," he said.

AAP claimed that in the absence of a proper agenda, BJP had resorted to carrying out personal attacks against AAP representatives. "They have also launched a personal attack against party convener Arvind Kejriwal. We are not going to react to this and will fight the assembly election with our development agenda against BJP's negative campaigning," said a spokesperson.



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