‘Power has gone to their head, they don’t know how to behave themselves’: Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee on AAP

She further said this brings into question that what was AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s criteria for the distribution of party tickets. “It also brings into question, Arvind Kejriwal who promised the voters of Delhi that he is going to give a very clean government. So we would like to know from him that what kind of members, leaders and elected representatives his party has, as one after another such allegations are being made against them and what was the criteria for distributing tickets,” she said.

She mentioned that another AAP MLA, Pawan Sharma was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on charges of causing death by negligence of a factory worker in 2009. She pointed that he was given a ticket despite the fact that the case against Sharma was registered on August 5, 2009.

“We would like to ask Kejriwal on what ground this gentleman (Pawan Sharma) was given the ticket, what kind of scrutiny was done,” she said. The Amanatullah controversy comes as AAP is still struggling with allegations from their own MLA, Devinder Sehrawat, who claimed that he had received reports about women being exploited in Punjab with promises of election tickets.

Also recently, AAP MLA Sandeep Kumar was accused of raping a woman a year ago and was arrested after facing suspension from the party.