Earlier on Saturday, AAP suspended Kumar from the primary membership of the party.
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Kejriwal, however, claimed that he sacked Sandeep from his cabinet within 30 minutes of receiving the video tape.
Kumar was removed from the council of ministers on August 31 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the CD purportedly showing him in compromising position with the woman surfaced.
BJP leader Vijender Gupta raised doubts on the different versions coming regarding Sandeep Kumar’s sacking. Now, the big question is that their senior party member Ashutosh is justifying and supporting Sandeep Kumar”, he told ANI “We would like to ask Sisodia as to what he would like to say on Ashutosh. “It is regrettable that many times Arvind Kejriwal and Ashutosh himself have gone to pray at the Samadhi of the Father of Nation but were not ashamed of insulting Mahatma Gandhi for their shameless colleague”, he said. “When we get proof of any wrongdong we don’t spare anyone and take immediate action, which does not happen in other parties”, he said.
Delhi’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules at the national level and has been embroiled in bitter disputes with Mr Kejriwal’s government, called on the Chief Minister to resign.
The woman in the CD claimed Kumar gave her a cold drink laced with drugs, after drinking which she lost consciousness. The decision was take at a high-level meeting held in the morning.
Seelmapur legislator Rajendra Pal Gautam is seen as a strong contender, party sources said.
“Check the authenticity of the CD”.
Noting that Kejriwal would go to Rajghat, a memorial to Gandhi, when he was launching his political career, Patra said he must speak now when Gandhi’s character has been attacked by his partyman. “It is a matter of investigation, a conspiracy to suppress me”. I belong to a poor family, so I know the facts are distorted.
He also lashed out at the media.
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“It is the history of this country that whenever we have tried to rise, we have been suppressed”.
