Monday, 25 November 2024
Monday, 25 November 2024
AAP supporters raise slogans against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22, outside the party office, in New Delhi.
Delhi Cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj were detained in Delhi as AAP leaders staged a protest against the BJP over the arrest of CM Arvind Kejriwal. The two ministers were taken away in police buses as officials asked protesters at the ITO intersection, which is near the AAP and BJP offices, to disperse in view of the prohibitory orders imposed in the area under section 144.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Nawab Nasir said Kejriwal's arrest was against the democratic norms. "We want to tell (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi that his dictatorship will not work. Kejriwal is an idea, an ideology. You can arrest him but you cannot arrest his ideas," the AAP leader said before being whisked by police.
AAP's Delhi unit convenor Gopal Rai gave a call for a nationwide protest against the Kejriwal's arrest. Delhi Police beefed up up security with heavy personnel deployment and multi-layer barricading on roads leading to BJP headquarters where AAP leaders and workers staged protest.
The police have erected barricades on the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg -- where the headquarters of both the parties are located -- and blocked it for traffic. They have also raised a barricade on the road leading to the BJP office from the AAP headquarters, a stone's throw away from each other.
AAP workers being detained by the police during their protest against the arrest of Kejriwal. The AAP's protest and the police response to it led to a massive traffic jam near the ITO Chowk, Raj Ghat and Vikas Marg during the morning rush hours.
