As Nadda announces panel to probe statue desecration bid, AAP says it may be ‘BJP job’

The BJP besides called upon AAP’s Dalit candidates to question Kejriwal for ne'er giving Rajya Sabha practice to a Dalit oregon appointing a Dalit Deputy CM.

“I inquire AAP’s 12 Dalit candidates — volition they tolerate this insult to Ambedkar,” asked Dushyant Kumar Gautam, BJP campaigner from Karol Bagh, a spot reserved for Dalits.

Rajkumar Anand, BJP campaigner from Patel Nagar, different specified constituency, said that the vandalisation of Ambedkar’s statue successful Punjab was an insult to the Dalit community. An AAP turncoat who joined the BJP past year, said, “If Kejriwal has installed adjacent a azygous Ambedkar statue, fto him amusement proof. The BJP, connected the different hand, is providing reservations beyond the mandated seats, proving its committedness to Dalit empowerment,” helium said.

Condemning the alleged enactment of vandalism, Nadda said it was illustration of the AAP government’s indifference and anarchy towards the Scheduled Caste community. He besides urged the Punjab authorities to instrumentality swift and stringent enactment against those responsible. He besides announced the enactment of a six-member sheet to analyse and verify the incident. The sheet — comprising Rajya Sabha subordinate and erstwhile UP DGP Brij Lal; BJP SC Morcha nationalist president Lal Singh Arya; erstwhile Union Minister Som Prakash ; party’s nationalist spokesperson Guruprakash Paswan; Uttar Pradesh furniture curate Asim Arun; and Haryana BJP person Banto Devi Kataria — volition sojourn the site, hole a elaborate report, and taxable it to the party’s cardinal leadership.

In Chandigarh, BJP’s authorities portion main Sunil Jakhar accused CM Mann of not taking enactment successful the incident. “This is not a tiny deed. How could the authorities of Punjab crook earlier the extremists… Mann has mislaid the close to enactment photos of Ambedkar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Mann does not attraction astir the insult to Ambedkar. He lone cares astir redeeming his government. Ambedkar’s statue…is an ideology of the creator of the Constitution… He is the religion of not lone the Scheduled Castes but the full nation,” Jakhar said.

The AAP, however, deed backmost astatine the saffron enactment for politicising the incident.

Party’s Anandpur Sahib MP, Malwinder Singh Kang, talking to The Indian Express, said, “I person worked with BJP. I cognize the enactment precise well. I person uncertainty from precise archetypal time that this whitethorn beryllium a BJP job. They are followers of Manu Smriti.”

“They person been trying to exploit the feelings of radical during the election. They tin bash thing for elections. We cognize BJP tin program riots, pb arson, and disagreement communities to triumph elections. They are doing aforesaid successful Punjab. It is precise overmuch imaginable that they could beryllium down this act,” said Kang.

“Our authorities is committed to exposure the conspiracy down the incident. Police is investigating and soon information volition beryllium out,” helium added.

Police connected January 26 arrested Akashdeep Singh, a nonmigratory of Dharamkot successful Moga, for allegedly attempting to harm Ambedkar’s statue connected Heritage Street. Akashdeep, a Dalit Sikh, had climbed atop the statue and tried to harm it with a hammer. He had besides allegedly tried to acceptable it connected fire.

A section tribunal Friday remanded Akashdeep successful five-day police.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Central) Jaspal Singh said that a telephone has been recovered from Akashdeep and sent for forensic examination. “The study volition uncover whom helium was successful interaction with. Meanwhile, each individuals associated with him are being called successful for questioning,” helium said.

“The probe is on. We are looking into each angles. We person rounded immoderate individuals who were successful interaction with him. He had travel from his maternal grandparents’ location successful Moga connected the time of incident. He purchased substance connected the mode which was utilized to commencement a occurrence nether the statute,” the ACP said.

Meanwhile, the Shiromani Akali Dal, during a moving committee gathering successful Chandigarh,discussed the incident. After the meeting, elder enactment person Daljit Singh Cheema said the committee was wide that lone a judicial probe could uncover the masterminds down this act.

“This probe should beryllium initiated astatine the earliest too taking enactment against civilian medication and constabulary officials who had failed successful their work to support the statue connected the juncture of Republic Day erstwhile the full authorities was successful a authorities of precocious alert,” Cheema said.

With Raakhi Jagga, Ludhiana