TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The Delhi assembly on Friday adopted a resolution on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which it was demanded that Bharat Ratna awarded to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi be withdrawn, but the Aam Aadmi Party swiftly distanced itself from the reference to the Congress leader.
The matter became a major crisis with AAP MLA Alka Lamba saying she will tender her resignation over revoking the late PM’s award. She also staged a walkout. Lamba claimed after the walkout, “I got a message from the CM to tender my resignation. I’m ready to do so”.
‘I was asked to support the resolution demanding taking back the Bharat Ratna awarded to former PM Rajiv Gandhi. Since I didn’t agree to this, I staged a walkout. I am ready to accept whatever punishment given to me,’ she said in a tweet. There was no immediate response from AAP on Lamba’s claim.
Party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed the lines about the former prime minister were not part of the original text placed before the house and it was a handwritten amendment proposed by a member that cannot be passed in such a manner.
