After MHA letter, Punjab Police removes its personnel from Kejriwal’s security cover

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Days aft the Union Home Ministry connected January 6 recommended to the Delhi Police that it should not deploy Punjab Police unit successful the information ringing of Delhi’s erstwhile Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal successful the capital, the authorities constabulary withdrew them Thursday.

Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, told reporters successful Patiala, “Time to time, we get reports of threats to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Kejriwal and we stock them with the agencies concerned. Following the directions of the Delhi Police and the Election Commission today, we withdrew the constituent of the Punjab Police successful the information of Kejriwal ji.”

“We showed our concerns to them. We volition stay successful interaction with them. We volition stock our inputs with the Delhi Police,” added Yadav.

The Indian Express had reported connected the contented connected January 16.

The AAP’s nationalist convenor is covered nether Z-plus information from the Delhi Police, nether which helium gets astir 60 personnel, including idiosyncratic information officers, 2 escorts, watchers, equipped guards and frisking staff.

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Sources said Punjab Police had deployed further information of astir 8-10 men successful Kejriwal’s information detail. Punjab’s unit would stay with him successful Delhi and outside, they said. A fewer months ago, the Punjab Police had cited a menace to Kejriwal from pro-Khalistani elements, they added.

Last week, the Punjab Police shared a caller input with the Delhi Police astir a imaginable onslaught connected Kejriwal by pro-Khalistani panic groups.

Delhi Police Special Commissioner of Police (Security) Jaspal Singh was not disposable for comment.

Meanwhile, hours aft reports of Punjab Police being removed from Kejriwal’s information came out, the AAP alleged the erstwhile CM’s car was attacked during a nationalist gathering successful West Delhi’s Hari Nagar.

“His information was brazenly breached yet again arsenic associates of the absorption campaigner attacked his conveyance successful the beingness of police,” the enactment said successful a statement.

Kejriwal posted connected X, “Today successful Hari Nagar, constabulary allowed the absorption candidate’s men to participate my nationalist gathering and they attacked my car. All this is happening connected the orders of Amit Shah. Amit Shah has made the Delhi Police the idiosyncratic service of the BJP. Big questions are being raised connected the Election Commission that the nationalist president of a nationalist enactment and its leaders are being perpetually attacked and the Election Commission is incapable to instrumentality immoderate effectual action.”

Police, however, said they had not received immoderate complaints successful transportation with the incident.

“The incidental took spot adjacent MLA Rajkumari Dhillon’s office, wherever immoderate radical raised slogans against Kejriwal and AAP. It happened astir 5.30-6 pm,” said a elder constabulary officer.

Dhillon is contesting arsenic an autarkic campaigner aft being denied an AAP ticket.

Inputs from Man Aman Singh Chhina  

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