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Delhi CM Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann talk to the media connected Friday. (Express/Amit Mehra)
A time aft the Punjab Police unit deployed successful the information of AAP main Arvind Kejriwal were withdrawn, AAP connected Friday accused the BJP-led Union authorities and the Delhi Police of conspiring to “kill” the erstwhile Chief Minister. Seeking restoration of information provided by Punjab Police, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner.
Kejriwal, meanwhile, dubbed it arsenic “pure politics”. “I regret that idiosyncratic information has been politicised,” the AAP person told mediapersons. He added that it was “pure politics” that was down the determination to “withdraw his information cover”. There should not beryllium immoderate authorities astatine slightest implicit idiosyncratic information and security, helium said.
Jointly addressing mediapersons, Atishi and Mann accused the BJP and Delhi Police of hatching a monolithic conspiracy to assassinate Kejriwal.
“On 1 side, determination are BJP workers who, successful antithetic parts of Delhi, onslaught Arvind Kejriwal. They propulsion stones astatine him, travel equipped with sticks, and adjacent usage tone sprays. On the different manus is the Delhi Police, which operates nether BJP and (Union Home Minister) Amit Shah… The collusion betwixt BJP and Delhi Police has created a concern wherever repeated attempts are being made to instrumentality his life,” Atishi alleged.
“The BJP and the Delhi Police accidental that Kejriwal has Z+ security… I inquire them, has determination ever been a Z+ protectee whose conveyance was attacked with stones, sticks… portion the constabulary stood by and did nothing… the Delhi Police, liable for protecting him, is nether BJP and Amit Shah, whose sole intent is to destruct Arvind Kejriwal astatine immoderate cost,” she added.
Mann, meanwhile, alleged that contempt complaints, Delhi Police has refused to lodge an FIR against the attackers. “Delhi Police refuses to registry FIR adjacent erstwhile we supply them the names of the culprits. The constabulary are acting connected orders from higher-ups to harm him physically, to halt him from campaigning… Punjab Police had factual grounds that Kejriwal could beryllium attacked successful Delhi and Punjab, which is wherefore we provided him security…,” helium said.
Hitting back, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, successful a associated property conference, questioned wherefore idiosyncratic who allegedly orchestrates the battle of a pistillate MP (AAP person Swati Maliwal) successful his home, needs Z+ security.
“AAP MP Raghav Chadha misused his Z+ information by deploying Punjab Police and Sikh policemen arsenic waiters astatine his wedding, which disrespected Punjab Police and the Sikh community. Punjab CM is attempting to person the nationalist that Kejriwal’s beingness is nether threat, but determination is nary grounds of specified danger… AAP is trying to make pre-election conspiracies, they mightiness soon signifier an onslaught connected themselves and blasted it connected BJP, a maneuver that is communal successful their politics,” said Bittu.
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