Congress, BJP complicity helped Kausar Jahan win Delhi Haj Committee poll: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered a big blow after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kausar Jahan was elected chairperson of the Delhi Haj Committee even as the party claimed that the saffron party and the Congress helped the woman win the poll.

Context

Kausar Jahan’s appointment comes just a month after a fight between the Delhi government and Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena over the inclusion of a Congress councilor, Nazia Dani, on the Haj Committee. The group is made up of six people: two from the AAP and two from the BJP, Muslim theology specialist Mohammad Saad, and Congress councilor Nazia Danish. The LG’s decision sparked a stern response from the AAP, which alleged that the BJP and Congress had a nexus.

Nazia Danish’s abstention paves way for Kausar

It was because of the “complicity” of the Congress and the BJP that Kausar Jahan managed to get elected as chairperson of the Haj Committee, claimed AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj at a press conference. “Had she voted for the AAP there would have been a tie. But she abstained from voting. This means that there was complicity between the Congress and the BJP that ensured that a woman who follows the BJP ideology is elected to the top post,” he said. Bhardwaj said that the L-G nominated Congress councillor Nazia Danish to the committee which was not was not right”. Notably, Nazia abstained from voting in the election, thereby ensuring the “BJP candidate’s victory”, Bhardwaj alleged.

L-G indulged in ‘utter dishonesty’: Bhardwaj

He also accused Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena of indulging in “utter dishonesty” while nominating members for the Delhi Haj Committee. “The L-G has no powers to nominate members but he did and indulged in dishonesty with the people of Delhi,” he said.

 Second woman to become Haj Committee chairperson

Kausar became the second woman elected to the top position after the former Delhi Congress chief Tajdar Babar. Reportedly, the votes of BJP MPs Gautam Gambhir and Muslim scholar Mohammad Saad were decisive in Kausar’s victory. She got 3 out of 5 votes; Congress member abstained. Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said her victory shows the growing trust of Muslims in the party. “The victory of the BJP-affiliated candidate in the Delhi Haj Committee makes it clear that now the Muslim community is also eager to join the country’s development stream Shri @narendramodi,” he tweeted in Hindi.

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