Delhi, May 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), who have been locked in a war of words, saw one MLA from the Arvind Kejriwal camp jumping ship. Anil Kumar Bajpai, the legislator from Gandhinagar, joined the BJP on Friday amid the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2019. In Bengal, PM Narendra Modi Says '40 TMC MLAs Are in Touch With Me, Will Leave Trinamool After May 23'

Bajpai was inducted into the BJP fold in presence of senior party leader and Union Minister Vijay Goel. Derek O'Brien Trashes PM Narendra Modi's Claim of 40 TMC MLAs Considering to Jump Ship to BJP.

Check the Pictures from Anil Kumar Bajpai Joining the BJP in Delhi

Interestingly, the BJP had claimed earlier that 14 AAP MLAs were in touch with the party to switch over, following which, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if democracy for him meant buying the legislators of Opposition parties.

“Modiji, are you trying to topple the governments of Opposition parties in states by horse-trading their MLAs? Is this your definition of democracy? Where is the money for this horse-trading coming from? You tried to buy our MLAs earlier too. But horse-trading of AAP leaders is not so easy,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.

Read Arvind Kejriwal's Comment in the Tweet Below:

AAP leader and deputy CM of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, accused the BJP of trying to buy at least seven of its MLAs saying that it offered them Rs 10 crore each to join the saffron party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently said at a rally in West Bengal that 40 MLAs of the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress (TMC) were in touch with him, implying that they were waiting to switch sides.

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