new delhi the bjp on friday accused the aam aadmi party aap of paying the new york times to feature its education minister manish sisodia on its front page a charge that the arvind kejriwalled party labelled as outrightly funny and stupidaddressing the media bjp leader parvesh varma held up the new york times and the khaleej times and said this is a photo of both the newspapersread alsofull text of the nyt article on manish sisodia and delhis schoolsthe new york times published an article featuring aaps education minister manish sisodia and the way the delhi government is fixing its schools the article has sparked a row between the bjp and the aap with the former alleging that the newspaper was paid to feature the article on the frontpagecbi wont get anything from raids at manish sisodias residence delhi cm arvind kejriwalreacting to cbi raid at delhi deputy chief minister manish sisodias residence on friday chief minister arvind kejriwal said cbi is welcome and they would cooperate fullyboth the newspapers have one reporter the article is the same wordtoword the same six pictures are in both does that ever happenaap hit back pointing out that the khaleej times article credits the new york times and rubbished the claims of paid news i challenge them use whatever money you have whatever power you have you try and get an article published in new york times if you think that is possible aaps saurabh bharadwaj said adding they are lying on national tv the new york times piece credits their staff karandeep singh in the khaleej times it is written below the article courtesy new york timesanother aap leader raghav chadha called the claim laughable no news of any bjp leader was ever printed there bjp calls itself the biggest party in the world its the richest political party they should appear on new york times front page daily if someone can buy them chadha tweetednyt clarifiesrefuting the advertisement accusation by the bjp the american newspaper told a media group that the article was a result of independent and impartial ontheground reporting the article on the front page of the international edition of the new york times is news coverage not an ad or paid for in any way it saidour report about efforts to improve delhis education system is based on impartial ontheground reporting and education is an issue that the new york times has covered over many years journalism from the new york times is always independent free from political or advertiser influence other news outlets routinely license and republish our coverage the newspaper told the media groupcbi raids followed international praise kejriwalearlier in the day kejriwal accused the centre of targeting sisodia as it couldnt stomach international praise for an aap minister in a way sisodia has been declared as the best education minister in the world the biggest newspaper wrote about delhis education revolution and carried sisodias photograph also kejriwal said adding that the last time