Aam Aadmi Party chief and Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema, accompanied by 11 AAP MLAs, met director normal of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav in Chandigarh on Wednesday and in opposition to BJP leaders for attempting topple the state authorities by providing as much as 25 crore every to its legislators.

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The improvement comes a day after Cheema mentioned at a press convention that BJP leaders and brokers from Delhi and Punjab have approached a minimum of 10 AAP MLAs over telephone beneath ‘Operation Lotus’ and provided 25 crore to every one in every of them to give up the AAP and be a part of their occasion. “They are providing to rearrange conferences of those MLAs with ‘Babu ji’ and in addition promising them cupboard ministerial ranks after the BJP types its authorities within the state,” he alleged on Tuesday.

Jalandhar AAP MLA claims death threat

On Wednesday, Cheema alleged that the BJP offered money to AAP legislators Sheetal Angural, Dinesh Chadha, Raman Arora, Budh Ram, Kulwant Pandori, Narinder Bharaj, Rajnish Dahiya, Manjit Bilaspur and Labh Singh Ugoke. The MLAs were present at the press conference as he reiterated against the BJP.

Jalandhar MLA Sheetal Angural was also given a death threat on Tuesday, he said.

Cheema claimed that Talwandi Sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur was also approached.

The MLAs accompanied him to the Punjab DGP’s office.

The minister made theBhagwant two days after chief ministerwant Mann embarked on an eight-day tour of Germany on Sunday to attract investors to the state.

The AAP had swept the assembly elections in Punjab in March 2022, winning 92 of the 117 seats. The BJP has only two MLAs in the assembly.

BJP misusing investigation agencies: Punjab FM

Cheema accused the BJP of using central investigation agencies to put pressure on AAP legislators. “Wherever the BJP loses, these people form their government by breaking MLAs with the help of CBI, ED and money. They did it in Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh,” he alleged.

Cheema said that after unsuccessfully trying these dirty tricks in Delhi to bring down our government, they (BJP) were now attempting the same in Punjab. He claimed that the BJP had set aside 1,375 crore to interrupt away 55 MLAs of the AAP.

Asked for proof, he mentioned that the occasion was getting it examined legally and would make it public at an applicable time.

The minister claimed that the BJP was afraid of (AAP nationwide convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind) Kejriwal and its solely intention was to cease him by any means.

Shifting blame of rebel: BJP

The BJP on Tuesday accused the AAP of attempting to shift the blame for its personal rebel on it (the BJP) and claimed that every one was not properly within the AAP. State BJP normal secretary Subhash Sharma dismissed Cheema’s declare as baseless. He claimed that earlier the warfare and rivalry between Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal was hidden however now it had come out in public.

To divert public consideration from the warfare inside, the AAP was attempting to resort to its “all-time favorite lies of Operation Lotus”.

The BJP chief mentioned the AAP was collapsing beneath its personal weight as state occasion MLAs have been fed up with undue interference by Delhi leaders Kejriwal and Raghav Chadha.