A case was registered against AAP Gujarta chief Isudan Gadhvi on Saturday after he claimed that the BJP-led Centre has spent Rs 830 crore so far on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, which completed 100 episodes on Sunday.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader in a tweet claimed that Rs 830 crore of the taxpayers’ money has been spent on 100 episodes of the monthly radio address so far. Police alleged that Gadhvi made the claim without any relevant data to support it.
“Police are the complainant on behalf of the government. The FIR was registered on April 29 at the Cyber Crime Branch after it was found that Gadhvi had tweeted against ‘Mann Ki Baat’ without any reliable data to back his claim. We will gather evidence and then proceed further. He has not been arrested yet,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime, JM Yadav told reporters in Ahmedabad, PTI reported.
Slamming the BJP over the FIR, the AAP alleged that cases are being filed against its leaders as the BJP wants “political assassination” of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Addressing a press conference, AAP Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha, “A new day and a new FIR. We vehemently condemn this. While an FIR has been lodged against Gadhvi just because he took a small political dig on Twitter, the award-winning wrestlers are holding protest in the national capital demanding action against a BJP leader allegedly for sexual harassment but the Delhi police lodges an FIR against the accused only after the wrestlers approach the Supreme Court.”
Meanwhile, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) fact-check unit rejected a claim that PM’s Mann Ki Baat costs Rs 8.3 crore per episode and so far Rs 830 crore have been incurred on the ads.
Terming the claim “misleading”, the PIB said that Rs 8.3 crore is the total figure of ads for Mann ki Baat till said date, not for a single episode as claimed in the viral message.