Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on April 29 denied endorsing tweets which called social activist Anna Hazare a “fraud” and said his twitter account was hacked. Sisodia reportedly re-tweeted a few tweets which described Hazare as a “BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) agent” and “fraud”.
“Please don’t believe them (tweets). I have greatest respect for Annaji. Can never say such things against him…,” Sisodia said.
In another tweet he said: “My account hacked. Someone retweeting anti-Anna Hazare messages from account. Trying to delete them, not even getting deleted.”
My account hacked. Someone retweeting anti Anna Hazare messages from account. Trying to delete them, not even getting deleted. 1/N
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) April 29, 2017
Hazare had earlier blamed his former protege and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s quest for power being behind the Aam Aadmi Party’s debacle in the Delhi civic polls.
Pls don’t believe them. I have greatest respect for Anna ji. Can never say such things against him. Pls don’t believe them. 2/N
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) April 29, 2017
“People gave him a mandate and he got an opportunity to turn Delhi into a model state for the entire country to replicate. But power is bad. Once you sit in the chair, you lose your power of thinking,” Hazare had said.
“Instead of working for Delhi, he started thinking about (capturing power in) Punjab and Goa. There was no need for him to hurry.”
“But he was in a hurry and people realised that it is power in his mind and not society or the country,” he said.
Hazare had also rejected Kejriwal’s charge regarding tampering with electronic voting machines (EVMs) and said that in reality the gap between the AAP leaders’ words and deeds eroded public faith in the party.
“The deeds were not in accordance with words — that is why this erosion of public faith. Their leaders are talking of introspection, but they should have done it earlier. What is its use now?” added Hazare.
