With fingers being pointed at some of its candidates, Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said it will conduct a probe against them if any ‘fact’ emerges about their alleged tainted background, even as it accused its rivals of launching a smear campaign against its nominees.
‘We want to make it clear if anyone comes up with even an iota of fact about them having a tainted background, we can assure them that we would probe the matter threadbare and if any candidate is found guilty, their nomination would be cancelled immediately,’ AAP spokesperson Manish Sisodia said.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party, which had made it clear that it would field candidates with a clean image and no criminal record or cases against them, has recently cancelled the nomination of its Shahdara candidate for having some police cases against him.
Keeping up with its stance of zero-tolerance towards corruption, the party removed Shahdara candidate Surendra Sharma after it came to fore that there were criminal cases and FIRs pending against him.
‘We can cancel any candidature even on the election day, if we come across any proof that the candidate has a tainted background,’ Kejriwal had said.
The party had been receiving complaints against Deshraj Raghav from Uttam Nagar for allegedly being involved in ration shop scam and Vinod Kumar Binny from Lakshmi Nagar, who was accused of land grabbing.
‘We want to make it clear if anyone comes up with even an iota of fact about them having a tainted background, we can assure them that we would probe the matter threadbare and if any candidate is found guilty, their nomination would be cancelled immediately,’ AAP spokesperson Manish Sisodia said.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party, which had made it clear that it would field candidates with a clean image and no criminal record or cases against them, has recently cancelled the nomination of its Shahdara candidate for having some police cases against him.
Keeping up with its stance of zero-tolerance towards corruption, the party removed Shahdara candidate Surendra Sharma after it came to fore that there were criminal cases and FIRs pending against him.
‘We can cancel any candidature even on the election day, if we come across any proof that the candidate has a tainted background,’ Kejriwal had said.
The party had been receiving complaints against Deshraj Raghav from Uttam Nagar for allegedly being involved in ration shop scam and Vinod Kumar Binny from Lakshmi Nagar, who was accused of land grabbing.