On Tuesday, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit said he plans to file defamation lawsuits against Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh.

In response to their claims that he accepted funds from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "five to six days ago," Delhi Chief Minister Atishi said Dikshit accepted a "huge amount of money from the BJP." "For the last 10-12 years, they have targeted Congress, me, and my family. I have several questions to ask AAP from the last 10-12 years," Dikshit stated lambasting the AAP national convener and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. "He (Arvind) used to walk around with 360 pages of evidence against the Sheila Dikshit government. BJP's Vijay Kumar Malhotra told me that a delegation of BJP met Arvind Kejriwal after he became CM and asked for that evidence," he added.

He disclosed that 360 newspaper cuttings were displayed by Kejriwal. "He is the first person who gives newspaper cutting as evidence...The day when CM Atishi said that we are taking money from BJP, that day former PM Manmohan Singh passed away. That is why we could not do a press conference," he added. The Congress leader, who is the son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, is running in the upcoming assembly election against Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi constituency. In 2013, Sheila Dikshit had lost her seat to Kejriwal. "After this press conference, I will file a criminal and civil defamation case against CM Atishi and Sanjay Singh. I will ask them to give me Rs 10 crore. I will donate Rs 5 crores for Yamuna cleaning and Rs 5 crores for the issue of pollution in Delhi,” Dikshit added.

Dikshit targeted Kejriwal for the social welfare initiatives announced by the ruling AAP ahead of the upcoming assembly election. "They should answer a simple question: Why are they implementing all this now? Why didn't they do this earlier?" he questioned. The former East Delhi MP further stated, "They have been in government for the last five years. When he went to prison, he wasted a good one and a half years. He could have resigned earlier and completed all the pending work." Dikshit questioned Kejriwal that if he becomes the CM after the February 2025 election, "Will he still not be able to sign any files and implement all the schemes he has been promising? He will not be able to distribute even a penny as CM."