MUMBAI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Mumbai Member of Parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya who rushed on Tuesday to Bombay high court after the sessions court denied him pre-arrest bail, denying all allegations says the allegation he collected Rs 57 crore during the INS Vikrant restoration drive is "absurd" and his aim was to "reignite gratitude" towards the Naval ship.
His plea in HC says, "the drive to raise awareness and symbolic collection to save INS Vikrant was done so at the behest of the BJP and not an individual initiative."
