AAP takes Malhotra to Election Commission on ‘Batla’

NEW DELHI: Taking up cudgels on behalf of the minority community, Aam Aadmi Party has written to the Election Commission, asking for a complaint to be filed against senior BJP leader V K Malhotra for making inflammatory speeches.


Malhotra, who is the EC chairman of BJP's Delhi unit, on Tuesday said Jamia Nagar and Batla House were "areas from where terror modules were being run and police could not search these areas as extremists do not allow them to enter".

"Such a statement linking particular areas with terrorism has been made with a clear design to project a particular community in bad light. Further, Malhotra has mentioned AAP in his press conference...the statement constitutes a criminal offence and AAP requests EC to direct authorities to register a criminal case against him," Dilip Pandey, secretary, AAP's Delhi unit.