New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against the BJP for posting "absurd" content on social media to tarnish the image of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. An AAP delegation led by party MP Raghav Chadha earlier today met with EC officials.
Raghav Chadha said that the delegation requested the EC to take cognizance of the complaint and ensure proper action against the BJP.
"The BJP is using substandard and absurd content while trying to spoil the image of our party and leader Arvind Kejriwal. They are trying his character assassination," he charged.
"There should always be a certain decorum in politics, and this violation reflects poorly on their values. While engaging in elections and reaching out to the public is natural, launching unwarranted attacks on the image of Kejriwal Ji and his family is not appropriate. We have filed a detailed complaint against the inappropriate content posted on November 5," he stated in a post on AAP's social media handle.
AAP filed the complaint over a November 5 video posted by the BJP Delhi's official social media accounts, mocking Kejriwal.
Last week, the Election Commission issued a show-cause notice to Kejriwal for alleged disparaging remarks made by AAP against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its social media handle and asked him to respond to the charge of poll code violation by November 16, reported PTI.
Soon after, Chadha accused the BJP of running a "derogatory and misleading" campaign on social media against Kejriwal and said AAP would submit a complaint to the Election Commission.
After filing the complaint earlier today, Chadha said politics and public life require some level of dignity and if any party violates it, "the same reflects the 'sanskar' the party".
"It does not behove a big, national party with government at the Centre to use its publicity machinery to attack Kejriwal, abuse his family and assassinate his character," Chaddha said.