The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said it will ask the leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress to agree for a probe by a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team to investigate the funding of all the three major parties in the Delhi polls.
The party said it will write to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and BJP President Amit Shah seeking their consent for the investigation, to bring transparency in the funding of political parties. "The AAP will write letters to BJP and Congress presidents requesting to cooperate in SIT probe about their fundings for clean politics," senior AAP leader Ashutosh said in a tweet.
The party said that a five-member delegation of the AAP will go to Supreme Court to request for the setting up of an SIT to probe the funding of the three political parties.
"Team of five leaders -- Ashutosh, Kumar Vishwas. Sanjay singh, Ashish Khetan And Yogendra yadav will reach SC BY 1030 to request SIT PROBE (sic)," he tweeted. "We are going to SUPREME COURT to hand over a letter to request to create an SIT to investigate the fundings of BJP, Congress and AAP," he wrote on the micro-blogging site.
The AAP's move came a day after a breakaway group of the party accused it of receiving Rs 2 crore from "dubious" companies.
"The AAP demands constitution of a SIT to probe funding of all three main political parties (the AAP, Congress and BJP). The SIT should be monitored by the Supreme Court," another senior leader, Yogendra Yadav, said last night.
Meanwhile, the BJP has come out with a new advertisement accusing the AAP of receiving funds from "dubious" companies.
