AAP issues clarification on survey
20 Feb 2014 5:25 AM IST
‘Aam Aadmi Party leader Shazia Ilmi learnt about a survey that showed a dramatic fall in the levels of corruption in Delhi after Aam Aadmi Party government came to power. Since the information came from someone who was an employee of Transparency International, she (Ilmi) assumed that it was a Transparency International survey,’ a statement by the party said.
Taking support of Ilmi’s statement to the newspaper, Kerjiwal, in his speech at the CII on Monday, had said that corruption cases have fallen drastically in Delhi after the party came to power.
‘Since then we have come to know that the said survey had no connection with Transparency International and the source of Shazia Ilmi’s information had quit Transparency International by then. We regret this error,’ the statement added.
Shazia Ilmi, however, said that an independent agency had conducted a survey which states that corruption has gone down in Delhi after AAP formed government.
‘There is indeed a study done by an independent agency asserting that Delhi was cleaner and less corrupt in AKs 49 days... It will be out soon,’ she tweeted. Transparency International Indian too rebuffed Ilmi’s claim of conducting such survey.
‘The information shared by Aam Aadmi Party leader Ms Shazia Ilmi is factually incorrect. We have not undertaken any study on corruption in Delhi and so there is no question of any such published or unpublished report,’ Ashutosh Kumar Mishra, executive director Transparency International India, said in a press statement.
BJP asks AAP to apologise
New Delhi: BJP leader Harsh Vardhan demanded an apology from AAP for wrongly quoting Transparency International India to support their claim that corruption had gone down during the 49 days’ reign of Arvind Kejriwal. The party also launched a door-to-door campaign to expose the lies of 49-days of rule of AAP government and its alleged nexus with Congress. ‘AAP leaders and its convener are habitual liers. They must apologise for wrongly quoting a survey of TII to claim fall in corruption in Delhi and also for several lies they have been professing,’ said Vardhan said.
Taking support of Ilmi’s statement to the newspaper, Kerjiwal, in his speech at the CII on Monday, had said that corruption cases have fallen drastically in Delhi after the party came to power.
‘Since then we have come to know that the said survey had no connection with Transparency International and the source of Shazia Ilmi’s information had quit Transparency International by then. We regret this error,’ the statement added.
Shazia Ilmi, however, said that an independent agency had conducted a survey which states that corruption has gone down in Delhi after AAP formed government.
‘There is indeed a study done by an independent agency asserting that Delhi was cleaner and less corrupt in AKs 49 days... It will be out soon,’ she tweeted. Transparency International Indian too rebuffed Ilmi’s claim of conducting such survey.
‘The information shared by Aam Aadmi Party leader Ms Shazia Ilmi is factually incorrect. We have not undertaken any study on corruption in Delhi and so there is no question of any such published or unpublished report,’ Ashutosh Kumar Mishra, executive director Transparency International India, said in a press statement.
BJP asks AAP to apologise
New Delhi: BJP leader Harsh Vardhan demanded an apology from AAP for wrongly quoting Transparency International India to support their claim that corruption had gone down during the 49 days’ reign of Arvind Kejriwal. The party also launched a door-to-door campaign to expose the lies of 49-days of rule of AAP government and its alleged nexus with Congress. ‘AAP leaders and its convener are habitual liers. They must apologise for wrongly quoting a survey of TII to claim fall in corruption in Delhi and also for several lies they have been professing,’ said Vardhan said.
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