Security personnel catch a person who threw liquid at Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi
New Delhi:
A person threw water on former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout a padyatra within the nationwide capital at the moment. Visuals of the assault present safety personnel and Mr Kejriwal’s supporters catching the person and thrashing him, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief assessing what had simply occurred.
Police sources stated the incident occurred whereas Mr Kejriwal was strolling with supporters in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar neighbourhood.
The man has been recognized as Ashok Jha, they stated, including he has been detained and is being questioned.
Mr Kejriwal, reacting to the assault on him, urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah, to whom the Delhi Police experiences, to cease crime within the nationwide capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi in a put up on X claimed Mr Jha was a BJP member.
The man who attacked Arvind Kejriwal at the moment is a BJP goon. #KejriwalAttackedByBJPpic.twitter.com/1PxWvIcvuo
— Atishi (@AtishiAAP) November 30, 2024
AAP chief Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged the BJP was behind the assault.
“Law and order have collapsed in Delhi and the central authorities and the Home Minister are usually not doing something,” Mr Bharadwaj informed information company ANI.
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor stated Mr Kejriwal has gone again to doing his “previous trick” with an eye fixed on the Delhi meeting election which is due early subsequent yr.
“Arvind Kejriwal’s each political technique has failed. Now he’ll return to utilizing his previous tips, wherein he’s slapped and ink is thrown at him. An analogous factor occurred at the moment. Arvind Kejriwal ought to inform himself what new recreation he began at the moment,” Mr Kapoor stated.
“We request the Delhi Police to query the suspect and discover the reality. The BJP has by no means taken the trail of threats or violence in political campaigns,” he added.
The AAP in a put up on its X deal with questioned what it alleged was “deteriorating regulation and order state of affairs in Delhi”.
#WATCH | An individual tried to throw a liquid on former Delhi CM and AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal throughout his padyatra in Delhi’s Greater Kailash space.
The particular person was later held by his safety employees. pic.twitter.com/9c9MhzLEzj
— ANI (@ANI) November 30, 2024
“… If a former chief minister is just not secure within the nation’s capital, then what is going to occur to the frequent man? Delhi’s regulation and order state of affairs has fully collapsed below (central) BJP rule,” the AAP stated within the put up in Hindi.