The Aam Aadmi Party has claimed that as Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Arvind Kejriwal at a mega rally in Delhi on Saturday, the donations to the party soared.
“An interesting feature of this latest fundraising initiative has been that highest single day donations were received on January 10, the day when Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi launched a negative campaign against Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP,” the AAP said in a statement released to the media on Sunday.
At his rally in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, Modi said that “Delhi needed development, not anarchists”.
The AAP also asked the Congress and the BJP to reveal their sources of election funds.
“The AAP challenges the BJP and the Congress to reveal their sources of funds and let the people of Delhi know how much money they will spend on their campaign for the Delhi assembly elections,” the statement said.
“Can the BJP tell the people of Delhi how much money it spent on its much-hyped rally of Saturday which ultimately turned out to be a flop and failed to generate any response among the residents of the city?” the party said.
Meanwhile, the party claimed that it received donations amounting to Rs.2 crore in the first 10 days of the #IFundHonestParty Challenge.
“So far, at least 4,500 donors have participated in the #IFundHonestParty Challenge, which has seen a variety of local fund-raising programmes launched by party units in India and abroad, including ‘SelfieWithMufflerMan’ in Bangalore, #FlameOfHope in the UK; over 10 lunch/dinner events in Delhi assemblies; a lunch event in Lucknow and a dinner event in Mumbai,” the party said.