The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced the withdrawal of its support to Pritpal Singh Saluja, its candidate from Rajouri Garden constituency in the Delhi Assembly elections.
“It has been brought to our notice that an FIR was registered against him and three of his family members in October 2012 at Lucknow. It appears that the charge-sheet for dowry harassment etc was filed against him and some family members…A notice was issued by the trial court to him on November 11, 2013, which does not appear to have reached him before November 14, 2013. Therefore, his declaration in the nomination form that no criminal case was pending against him, maybe technically correct,” an AAP release said.
Since Saluja did not bring these facts to the attention of the party while applying for candidature, the AAP has taken a serious view of the lapse, it said.