Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday sent a legal notice to BJP’s East Delhi candidate Gautam Gambhir, threatening “legal proceedings”, for allegedly making defamatory comments against the former.
The notice demanded that Mr. Gambhir should tender a written apology to Mr. Kejriwal in person and Mr. Gambhir should also print it along with “true and correct facts” on his social media account within 24 hours of the receipt of this notice, failing which “appropriate legal proceedings shall be initiated”.
Filed by advocate Mohammad Irsad, from the legal cell of the AAP, the notice termed comments made by Mr. Gambhir as “offending tweets”.
The notice was served in connection with Mr. Gambhir’s tweets in which he said, “I feel ashamed to have a CM like Arvind Kejriwal” and “You are filth CM and someone needs your own jhadu [broom] to clean your dirty mind”. Mr. Gambhir tweeted this after his AAP rival Atishi alleged that derogatory pamphlets about her were circulated by Mr. Gambhir.
‘Poll violation’
The notice says the tweets were “not merely defamatory and motivated, but also false, baseless, incorrect, unverified and misleading”. The notice also said that the tweets were a violation of the model code of conduct.
On Friday, Ms. Atishi had filed a defamation case against Mr. Gambhir and the BJP for allegedly circulating the derogatory pamphlets.
