In the wake of Delhi Police serving notices to her and her party chief Arvind Kejriwal over the allegations against the BJP, AAP leader Atishi said those who have attempted to lure her party legislators are the same who allegedly lured nine Congress MLAs to their side in Uttarakhand in 2016.

Addressing a press conference here, the AAP leader dubbed the notices served to her and the Delhi CM as plain letters as they did not mention any section of the IPC, CrPC, PMLA, or the Prevention of Corruption Act.

As regards the allegation against the BJP of an attempt to buy MLAs, the AAP leader asserted that these are the people who in July 2019 had won over 14 Congress MLAs in Goa to their side after approaching 17 MLAs. Without naming anyone, she said those who approached the AAP legislators were those who had taken away incumbent Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, along with Shiv Sena MLAs.

Taking a dig at the notices, Aatishi said after a drama of the cops visiting the residences of the AAP leaders and all the suspense that followed, finally the two plain letters were delivered. She said she wanted to tell the crime branch that they were already aware of those against whom the allegations were made.

“Everybody knows who have been trying to bring down Opposition governments in the past 7-8 years, and now approaching the AAP MLAs,” she added.

The AAP leader recounted how officials from the Crime Branch, who came calling her at her residence in the morning, kept going in and coming out for almost three hours before finally delivering the “plain letters”.

AAP leader Jasmine Shah, who was present at the press conference, pointed out that on Saturday the entire media was present at the chief minister’s residence when the police team reached. Who else but the BJP must have leaked the information to the media, he asked. If this is not the case, he wondered how the BJP knows beforehand whenever such a thing happens. On Sunday too, when the police team reached the residence of Minister Atishi, the media was already there.

Shah said on being asked under what section of the law they handed over the notice to the CM, the police officer who visited the CM’s house declined to speak in front of the media.