New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party had issued a clarification on Tuesday over wrongly stated of AAP’s Chief Arvind Kejriwal and party leader Shazia Ilmi over report from global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International to claim that corruption has declined in Delhi. AAP issued a clarification stating it was “misinformed” about the survey.
The statement stated, “Aam Admi party leader Shazia Ilmi learnt about a survey that showed a dramatic fall in the levels of corruption in Delhi after Aam Aadmi Party government came to power. Since the information came from someone who was an employee of Transparency International, she (Ilmi) assumed that it was a Transparency International survey.”
Notify that after Ilmi’s statement to a newspaper, AAP’s convener had said that corruption cases have fallen drastically in Delhi after the party came to power in his speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Monday.
The statement also said, “Since then we have come to know that the said survey had no connection with Transparency International and the source of Shazia Ilmi’s information had quit Transparency International by then. We regret this error.”
AAP’s clarification came after Transparency International denied conducting such a survey in the national capital.
Notify that in a press statement, Ashutosh Kumar Mishra, Executive Director Transparency International India said, “The information shared by Shazia Ilmi is factually incorrect. We have not undertaken any study on corruption in Delhi and so there is no question of any such published or unpublished report.”
Bureau Report
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