AAP’s Punjab women wing chief Baljinder Kaur on Tuesday filed a complaint with the state women commission against party’s Delhi MLA Devinder Sehrawat, alleging he was “defaming” the women in the state.
This comes a day after Sehrawat wrote a letter to AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, alleging that women were being exploited in return for tickets to fight Punjab Assembly polls due next year.
A delegation led by Kaur, who is also AAP’s candidate from Talwandi Sabo, met chief of Punjab Women Commission Paramjit Kaur Landra and filed a formal complaint against the Delhi legislator. Kaur said she was hurt after reading Sehrawat’s letter which “was an attempt at defaming the women of Punjab”.
The reports published in different newspapers and broadcast on TV news channels have multiplied the “act of defamation” by Sehrawat.
Sehrawat made an attempt to deliberately undermine the image of women by accusing honest and dedicated AAP leaders without any evidence...Col Sehrawat has a history of criticising AAP leaders on one pretext or another. Party reposed faith in him but he has never been loyal to it.
Attempts to Sideline Devinder Sehrawat?
Adding to Colonel Sehrawat’s troubles, a letter from his father to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has found its way to social media platforms. Sehrawat’s father, in the letter, claims his son had in the past suffered a “nervous breakdown” and is “mentally ill”.
The comments by Bajinder Kaur, and the surfacing of the letter comes close on the heels of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh threatening to file a defamation case against the party MLA, who had accused the former of “exploiting” women on the pretext of giving them a ticket to contest the Punjab Assembly polls.
The letter, dated 8 February, was circulated on Twitter by AAP volunteers.
The Delhi legislator’s father, Ram Prakash, claims in the letter that Sehrawat would demand money from him, and if he failed to meet his demand, he would threaten him with a revolver.
He (Sehrawat) has a revolver which he has on several occasions pointed at me...I request you to help me as he is mentally ill and can be very dangerous at times...When he was in Army and had gone to Jabalpur for some course in 2005, he started practising black magic there. During his learning of black magic, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was airlifted to Delhi by his brothers and was treated at VIMHANS hospital.
(With PTI inputs)
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