Delhi Elections 2025: Atishi claims Ramesh Bidhuri’s nephew threatened AAP workers, says Election Commission

Delhi Elections 2025: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Kalkaji candidate Atishi has written a letter to the Election Commission of India complaining about Ramesh Bidhuri’s nephew and BJP workers threatening AAP workers in Parliament.

Atishi is competing against Ramesh Bidhuri Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Kalkaji in the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.

According to Chief Minister of DelhiBidhuri’s nephew threatened AAP workers at the spot saying, “Sit at home or your arms and legs will be broken. This is our election.”

“The BJP members, including Kunal Bhardwaj, Manish and Rishabh Bidhuri, who is the nephew of BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri, threatened Sanjay Gupta and others, scolded him, grabbed him by the collar and threatened him with physical harm,” Atishi said in the complaint. to an officer returning from Kalkaji place.

A similar incident took place 3-4 days ago when BJP workers slapped an AAP worker who was canvassing door-to-door, the chief minister said in the complaint.

Delhi Parliamentary Elections is scheduled for November 5 and the results will be announced on February 8.

Atishi Vs Ramesh Bidhuri

The Chief Minister is opposed Bharatiya Janata PartyRamesh Bidhuri of the Congress and Alka Lamba of the Congress form the senior seat. A seasoned politician and former Member of Parliament, Bidhuri won the Tughlaqabad Assembly seat in 2003, 2008 and 2013. Lamba worked in AAP for almost five years and joined Congress in 2019.

Stay at home, or your arms and legs will break. This is our election.

With two consecutive terms and a 49-day Congress-backed government, AAP is aiming for a hat-trick of victories in the future parliamentary elections in the national capital. The contest is being seen as a three-way fight with the Congress and the BJP being the other two sides in the fray.

The complaint states that this type of violence is a threat to the free and fair elections in the Kalkaji Parliament. “I would like to request you to take immediate action against the BJP workers concerned and deploy security forces at the spot to ensure the safety of the AAP volunteer,” Atishi said in the complaint.