Chandigarh Police remove protesting leaders of AAP

Chandigarh, February 5

High drama was witnessed outside the MC building as protesting AAP councillors and their supporters tried to enter the building and the police forcibly removed them.

The police took the protesters to the Sector 39 police station and released them later. It was second day of AAP’s chain hunger strike in Sector 17 against the “murder of democracy and hooliganism by the BJP” in the mayoral elections held on January 30.

Councillor Damanpreet Singh, senior AAP leaders Meena Sharma, Sukhraj Sandhu, Manmohan Pathak and Desraj Sanawar observed hunger strike in front of the building. Chairman, Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, and city AAP co-in charge SS Ahluwalia, senior AAP leaders Abha Bansal and Vikram Pundhir, councillor Jabir Singh Laddi, Prem Lata, Ram Chander Yadav, Suman Sharma, Munnawar and other volunteers also participated in it.

Dr Ahluwalia said said, “I have been continuously demanding from the police that stringent action should be taken against BJP’s nominated councillor Anil Masih (presiding officer) and councillors who have rejected eight votes of AAP mayoral candidate Kuldeep Kumar.” He recently lodged a complaint with the police, but they had not taken any action yet. He said AAP would take out a candle march in the city tomorrow to press for action against those who killed democracy in the MC.