Delhi polls | BJP rattled, flexing muscle: Arvind Kejriwal targets Amit Shah, asks EC for observers

He wrote a missive to the Chief Election Commissioner, demanding urgent involution implicit attacks connected his party’s volunteers successful the New Delhi Assembly constituency. He sought enactment against BJP workers arsenic good arsenic Delhi Police officers who helium alleged were moving astatine the behest of the party.

“As the elections gully closer, with conscionable 2 days remaining, a tempest of enactment for the AAP is sweeping crossed Delhi. In this storm, the BJP is rapidly collapsing. Day by day, BJP’s seats are dwindling portion the AAP moves towards a historical victory. In this hopeless situation, the BJP has mislaid its composure and nary 1 appears much rattled than (Union Home Minister) Amit Shah. His panic has reached a constituent wherever helium seems to person mislaid power entirely,” helium said.

Claiming that Delhi was witnessing “violent elections”, Kejriwal accused the Home Minister “of unleashing a question of hooliganism crossed Delhi, the likes of which the radical of this metropolis person ne'er witnessed before. Open attacks are being orchestrated against mean citizens and BJP-backed goons are mercilessly beating people.”

He alleged that connected Saturday, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh was contiguous astatine a determination wherever hooligans launched an assault. “Shockingly, the constabulary were close determination but did nothing. When questioned, they simply responded that they had orders from supra to not intervene. Instead of stopping the attackers, the constabulary fto them escape… They apprehension the victims and slap mendacious charges against them, keeping them successful custody each time and night, and harassing them successful each imaginable way,” helium alleged.

Kejriwal accused the BJP of threatening his candidates and enactment workers to “join them oregon they volition ruin them and their families”.

“Our leaders are being forced to articulation the BJP. Even women workers and leaders are not spared… They are troubling them too. The radical of Delhi are precise calm and similar to unrecorded a peaceful life. The metropolis is the nationalist Capital and radical person ne'er seen specified an predetermination run ever,” helium said.

Appealing to the radical to unite, Kejriwal said: “Amit Shah, halt your gundagardi. If you privation to contention elections, bash truthful connected existent issues. But the information is, you person nary issues near to combat on. You person nary main ministerial face, nary imaginativeness for Delhi, and nary existent agenda. Your lone strategy is to usage intimidation and unit to win.”

The enactment besides launched a societal media run against BJP and Shah.

Replying to Kejriwal’s letter, the bureau of Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi, said it has referred the substance to the District Election Officer, New Delhi District, and arsenic per their factual report, “no written complaints could beryllium traced successful astir of the cases… However, it has besides been informed that whenever written complaints are received from immoderate governmental enactment citing specified allegations, each specified matters are investigated invariably… and due enactment arsenic per ECI norms is either initiated oregon recommended successful each specified cases.”

On the circumstantial complaints/incidents cited by Kejriwal, the predetermination bureau said “police person reported that indispensable enactment was taken arsenic per instrumentality successful each the cases. Furthermore, to guarantee inducement-free and just elections, complaints connected the C-VIGIL portal of ECI are being attended, inquired and disposed of continuously”.

“As acold arsenic the contented of Independent Observer is concerned, it is to pass that General Observers, Expenditure Observers and Police Observers person already been deployed for each constituencies including New Delhi constituency… It is to pass you that each governmental parties are escaped to bash campaigning and successful case, immoderate ailment of threatening oregon intimidating by immoderate idiosyncratic of a governmental enactment is received, indispensable enactment volition beryllium taken arsenic per law,” it said.