Bungalow row: BJP's Bansuri Swaraj calls MP Raghav Chadha, AAP "masters of playing victim card"

New Delhi [India], October 17 : Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secretary Bansuri Swaraj on Tuesday said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha and his party are "masters of playing the victim card" amid Chadha's bungalow row.
"It is really shocking to see them playing the victim card for a wrongly allotted bungalow, which they once claimed they would not take," a media statement by Bansuri Swaraj mentioned.
Swaraj in her statement said that Delhiites are surprised to see Raghav Chadha trying to correlate the cancellation of a bungalow wrongly allotted to him beyond his entitlement with his suspension from Rajya Sabha and projecting the two as suppression of democratic rights.
"Not only Delhiites but people of the state of Punjab, which Raghav Chadha represents in Rajya Sabha know that as a first-time MP, he is not entitled to a type VII bungalow allotted to him by an administrative mistake and people of both states have seen the affidavits of AAP leaders where they pledged that will never seek or take government bungalows," the statement said.
The statement further claimed that people are "shocked to see" Raghav Chadha "running from one court to another" to retain a wrongly allotted bungalow as a matter of entitlement.
Bansuri Swaraj in her statement added, "Even today Raghav Chadha is trying to misrepresent the Delhi High Court order. MP Chadha is portraying as if the entire matter has been allowed in his favour and he is allowed to retain the bungalow. Whereas, the reality is that the High Court has given him only a limited protection and has directed him to present his case again before the trial court again within three days."
The statement said such misrepresentation by the AAP MP was highly condemnable.
"Raghav Chadha's wrongful bungalow allotment was cancelled by the Estate Officer on March 3, 2023, and his suspension from Rajya Sabha was announced on August 11 hence the two have no legal relation and even otherwise MP Chadha's claim of privilege for the bungalow allotment is immoral apart from being legally objectionable," the statement read.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court earlier today set aside an order by the Patiala House court that paved the way for the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to evict AAP MP Raghav Chadha from his official residence in the national capital.
MP Raghav Chadha on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the Delhi High Court to set aside a court's order to evict the AAP MP from his official residence and said that the decision to revoke his official accommodation was arbitrary, unreasonable, and unjust.
The follow-up on the Raghav Chadha residence row arrived a week after the AAP MP moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court's decision to vacate an interim order that gave a nod and paved the way for the Rajya Sabha secretariat to evict him from the government bungalow allotted to him.