New Delhi [India], February 7: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Malviya Nagar assembly constituency, Satish Upadhyay, hit out at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday and expressed confidence in the BJP's victory in the Delhi assembly elections.
The Election Commission has confirmed that the counting of votes for the Delhi assembly elections will take place on February 8, with early trends expected to begin around 8 AM.
The counting of votes for the Delhi assembly elections will take place on February 8, and the early trends will start coming in from 8 AM, the Election Commission said.
"Arvind Kejriwal has always been questioning the functioning of constitutional institutions in the country. This politics of constantly putting pressure, this is a part of their (Arvind Kejriwal) politics" BJP's Satish Upadhyay told ANI.
He further congratulated the Election Commission of India for doing an "impartial" job.
"I congratulate the Election Commission of India because they have done everything impartially," he added.
His reaction comes in the wake of the AAP chief saying that the EC has "refused to upload" the booth-wise data of each assembly constituency which is recorded in Form 17C.
"EC has refused to upload form 17C and number of votes polled per booth in each assembly despite several requests," the AAP chief said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
The party has also launched a website, where they have claimed to have uploaded copies of Form 17C provided to AAP for every assembly constituency.
The AAP chief also claims that they will be presenting the data of every assembly constituency and every polling booth which was set up in the national capital during the February 5 election, and criticising the ECI for not doing the same "in the interest of transparency."
Earlier today, the Anti-Corruption Bureau also issued a notice to Kejriwal, requesting his presence in investigations into the allegations of bribes being offered to AAP MLAs.
Additionally, the ACB has requested any other evidence that could support Kejriwal's claims about the bribe offers, that he and other party members have made on social media platforms.
Earlier, on Thursday, Arvind Kejriwal claimed in a post on X, "Some agencies are showing that the 'Gali Galoch party' (Referring to the BJP) is getting more than 55 seats. In the last two hours, 16 of our candidates have received calls that if they leave AAP and join their party, they will make them ministers and will give Rs. 15 crores to each of them."