New Delhi: A day after letter claimed to be written by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Murli Manohar Joshi addressed to party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani went viral on the social media, Joshi has written to the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, seeking an investigation.
Joshi writes to EC, “My friends in media called me up and told me that since yaesterday a letter addressed by me to LK Advani Ji has been circulated on Social Media, I have read that contents of it and I am attaching them with this letter. I have not sent any such letter to Advani Ji. Kindly, immediately look into the matter and find the source of the letter, through which it came to Social Media. ”
The fake letter stated Joshi as saying, the BJP might get around 120 seats only in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, further adding that “BJP will get barely 8-10 seats in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 which was held on 91 constituencies of 20 states.”
The two-page letter that circulated on social media also mentioned that Joshi was under pressure to join Samajwadi Party or the Bahajun Samaj Party but he didn’t leave his home, it further reads, the Joshi was insultingly thrown out from the party.
Statement: Screenshots of BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi statement on his letter head is circulating on WhatsApp and Twitter with an ANI watermark. No such letter exists. This is fake.
— ANI (@ANI) April 14, 2019
The letter carrying the ANI watermark was quashed as invalid by the news agency. In their tweet on the issue, they said, “Screenshots of BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi statement on his letter head is circulating on WhatsApp and Twitter with an ANI watermark. No such letter exists. This is fake.”
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