NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday offered Haryana IAS official Ashok Khemka, allegedly targeted by the state for his revelations on land scams involving Robert Vadra, a party seat to contest the 2014 general elections against Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
The offer comes at the heels of a similar one extended to suspended Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, in the news for taking action against sand mafia in UP, to join AAM and contest elections against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav from his constituency of Mainpuri in next year's general elections.
Taking on the Congress brass in the same breath, AAP alleged that even as party chief Sonia Gandhi came out in support of Nagpal, she "seems to have abetted the victimization of Ashok Khemka who showed the courage to stand up to this massive scam. If the Congress party was serious about dealing with corruption and protecting whistleblowers, they would have not only brought the Jan Lokpal bill, they would have dismissed Hooda and protected Khemka and brought a whistleblower protection Act," said an AAP spokesperson.
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