The BJP on Thursday launched a fresh attack on AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal with a new poster reading ‘Scam 2024’, referring to the OTT series Scam 1992 on stock market fraud involving Harshad Mehta. The poster accused the former prime minister of manipulating the electoral rolls and called him a “major fraudster”.
The BJP alleged that fake voter registrations were being carried out in Delhi, mainly from a ‘specific community’, and accused Kejriwal of ‘loving fake votes’.
“Kejriwal’s new game in Delhi! Try to save energy by manipulating votes. The house owner is not aware of it and this fraudster had created hundreds of votes at his home address and also that of a particular community (and the age of the new voters varied from 40 years to 80 years),” the party wrote while sharing the poster.
The BJP and AAP are engaged in an intense political spat over several issues in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections, scheduled for February this year.
Earlier this week, the BJP shared another poster mocking Kejriwal, labeling him as a ‘chunavi Hindu’ (Hindu for election purposes) after he promised Rs 18,000 per month to temple priests and gurdwara Granthis ahead of the Assembly elections.
The BJP’s poster depicted Kejriwal in a theatrical, priest-like avatar reminiscent of actor Rajpal Yadav’s character in a bollywood film Bhool Bhulaiyaa. The image showed Kejriwal adorned with rudraksha beads, garlands and vermilion, with incense sticks behind his ear.