"AAP's name should be changed to DPP, Daru Premi Party": Gourav Vallabh

New Delhi [India], July 5 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Gourav Vallabh took a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party saying that its name should be changed to DPP or Daru Premi Party, given its alleged "fondness" for liquor.
"The AAP should be named DPP- Daru Premi Party. Why so? This is because one Chief Minister is in jail on charges of liquor scam, one Deputy Chief Minister is in jail on charges of liquor scam," Vallabh said speaking to ANI on Friday.
"One Chief Minister had reached Frankfurt airport in such a drunken state that he was not declared fit to fly. This is in the public domain," he added referring to reports about Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann being deplaned at Frankfurt Airport as he was allegedly too drunk to walk.
Continuing with his veiled attack Vallabh said, "I do not know why the Aam Aadmi Party is so fond of 'daru' (liquor). AAP is DPP. Aam Aadmi Party's name should be Daru Premi Party."
The BJP leader also spoke about the Congress party's support to APP, irrespective of the fact that they had opposed the liquor policy and had even lodged the first case against AAP on the liquor policy case.
"Who lodged the case? Who complained first? It was the Congress who is supporting Arvind Kejriwal. Will the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi break his silence on this?" Vallabh questioned.
On the alliance between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi ahead of the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the BJP leader said, "The Congress and the AAP contested the polls together in Delhi and as a result, all the seven seats were swept by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Today, in Delhi, their organization exists only in name."
Speaking about the stampede in Hathras in which more than 100 people lost their lives, Vallabh said that none of the accused will be spared even if they are associated with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
"No one will be spared, irrespective of whether they have earlier posed in photographs with Akhilesh Yadav," the BJP leader said.
Vallabh also pointed out that the largest stampede to date was at Maharashtra's Mandhardevi in which close to 300 people lost their lives, when the Congress was in power.
"The biggest stampede to date was at Mandhardevi in 2005 in which 340 people lost their lives. The Congress was in power then," he said.
"Till today, they are roaming around for compensation. When will you ask questions from the government which was in power during that time?" Vallabh questioned.
Vallabh said that while there were 1179 cases of stampedes during the Congress regime from 2010 to 2014, there have been only 51 cases in the last five years, from 2019 to 2024, when the BJP was in power.
"From 2010 to 2014, there have been 1179 cases of stampede in which 1250 people lost their lives. In the last five years, there have been only 51 cases in which 192 people lost their lives. But even this is a big number. We need to bring it down to zero," he said.