Ashoo Mongia and Munish Raizada — the duo in complaint against CM Kejriwal

While the AAP alleged that Mongia was a BJP leader, he said he was not associated with any party. “I am part of a Hindu sangathan and we will always stand with BJP and have stood with them in the past as well… I have never needed the support of any political party,” said Mongia.

On X, Mongia over the past several months has posted several posts and videos related to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. He has also posted videos of a song sung by BJP leader and former AAP minister Kapil Mishra, after Kejriwal was arrested. “I was in Ayodhya at the time of the temple consecration. Several members of our organisation were there. It was a very big day for me,” he said.

Ex-AAP member Munish Raizada, who was suspended from the AAP in 2015, was also mentioned in the complaint. A doctor who was based in Chicago at the time, Raizada was an office-bearer of the party’s Overseas Wing till 2015 and, initially, worked in association with Dinesh Vaghela, a founding party member, who passed away in April 2024. He was among the people who met Kejriwal in New York when the latter was called to Columbia University for a talk in December 2014. After Pannun’s video was posted online, Raizada in a series of posts on X said that when Kejriwal came to New York, he held meetings with Sikh leaders, of which he was not a part. AAP had suspended Raizada for starting a website, seeking suggestions and inputs on organisational activities and for portraying it as a platform of AAP’s Lokpal.