Kejriwal writes to EC; slams Amit Shah over 'attacks' on AAP workers
As the Delhi assembly election draws near, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the alleged attacks on its volunteers by BJP workers.
The former Delhi chief minister also wrote to the Election Commission demanding the arrest of BJP workers involved in the alleged attacks along with suspension of police officials and appointment of independent observers in the New Delhi constituency.
At a press conference on Sunday morning, Kejriwal alleged, “The BJP has lost its temper after seeing a storm by AAP in the upcoming election; therefore, they have resorted to violence and assaults on our workers.”
Kejriwal said AAP MP Sanjay Singh had witnessed heckling by BJP workers at Parliament Street while he was talking to media during a door-to-door campaign. In the letter, the former Delhi chief minister also cited some alleged incidents of attack on AAP workers in his New Delhi constituency.
Kejriwal is contesting from New Delhi against BJP’s Parvesh Verma and Congress’s Sandeep Dikshit.
AAP MLA Mohinder Goyal was allegedly assaulted during a public rally in Rohini on Saturday.
Singh on Saturday wrote a letter to the Election Commission, alleging that the BJP workers assaulted AAP workers and tried to stop them from campaigning in the New Delhi constituency.
In his letter, Kejriwal alleged that a senior volunteer of his party was detained and booked under Section 126 of the BNSS at Tilak Marg police station on “baseless and fictitious grounds”.
"There has been an effort to suppress our party's grassroots-level workers through unlawful detentions and threats, allegedly at the behest of the BJP, to discourage them from participating in election-related activities," Kejriwal wrote.