I would have given him a better picture if he had asked for it: Bedi

The poster war in the ensuing Delhi assembly elections may reach to court as BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Tuesday served a legal notice to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal asking him to remove her picture from his posters within 24 hours or else legal action.

“It is completely unethical. I would have given him a better picture if he would have asked for it. He believes only in tamasha, this is also tamasha (drama),” said Kiran Bedi to Millennium Post. 

Bedi formally served a legal notice to remove from the poster which were released by AAP on Saturday evening and are pasted on the backs of auto-rickshaws in the city. 

In the posters, Kejriwal has been shown as an honest (Imandar) while Bedi as an opportunist (Avsarvadi). Taking a dig on AAP, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay said: “By making a derogatory comment on such a respected personality, Kejriwal has made it clear that they do not respect women and political ideals.”

Interestingly, the reaction of Bedi is on the lines of senior BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi when AAP had used his picture to compare her Chief Ministerial candidate Arvind Kejriwal with Mukhi, considering him as BJP’s CM candidate. “I would have given him a better picture,” Mukhi had said then. 

A BJP delegation led by Satish Upadhyay also visited the Election Commission and complained against AAP’s ‘falsehood’ being spread in the city. 

The complaint against AAP includes showing the results of opinion polls on auto-rickshaws, playing the sound track of Kejriwal’s oath-taking ceremony on FM, asking the people of Delhi to take money, election expenditure of Kejriwal’s 2013 assembly election.