My dad paid Rs 6 crore to Arvind Kejriwal for ticket, claims AAP candidate's son
New Delhi, May 11: Aaam Aadmi Party leader Balbir Singh Jakhar's son Uday on Saturday claimed that his father paid Rs 6 crore for a ticket for the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat.
"My father joined politics about three months back. He had paid Arvind Kejriwal Rs 6 crore for a ticket. I have credible evidence that he had paid for this ticket," Uday was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
"Why was my father, who was not even part of the Anna Hazare movement, given a ticket by the AAP?" he asked and added that an ametuer politician getting a ticket was "surprising."
Balbir Singh Jakhar has, however, denied the allegations, saying that his son, Uday Jakhar, never lived with him and "have never discussed with my son anything about my candidature".
Allying with Congress would have been like giving "three seats to the BJP": Kejriwal
Meanwhile,
Delhi
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(BJP)
leader
Praveen
Khandelwal
has
urged
Election
Commission
of
India
(ECI)
to
immediately
order
for
a
probe
on
allegations
of
Uday
Jakhar
that
his
father
paid
Rs
6
crore
to
Arvind
Kejriwal
&
Gopal
Rai
for
obtaining
a
ticket
to
contest
the
Lok
Sabha
election
from
West
Delhi
seat.
All seven seats in Delhi head for polling in a single phase on May 12 in Phase 6.