BJP misusing Delhi Police to facilitate its campaign, threaten AAP workers: Arvind Kejriwal

The people of Delhi will have to stand together and give the BJP a strong reply, Kejriwal said.

Mincing no words, AAP national convenor, Arvind Kejriwal, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of misusing the Delhi Police to facilitate its campaign in the national capital and intimidate AAP workers.

Addressing the press, Kejriwal echoed Delhi chief minister Atishi in accusing the BJP workers for spreading fear and undermining democratic processes in various constituencies of the capital. Atishi alleged that those who "threatened" the AAP volunteers included a nephew of Ramesh Bidhuri, the BJP candidate from the constituency.

"All the Delhi Police is with the BJP. No one is there for the security and safety of the people. One of the SHOs told me they get direct instructions from the Ministry of Home Affairs to disrupt our rallies," Kejriwal told a press conference. Underlining the need to resort to violence, Kejriwal claimed the BJP faces a "historic defeat" in Delhi and that is why its workers are resorting to hooliganism with the support of police.

“Money is being distributed, sarees are being distributed, other things are being distributed and police are standing there and checking and making sure that voters are getting this,” said Kejriwal.

Lashing out at the Centre, Arvind Kejriwal said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has taken over the BJP’s campaign and accused the Delhi Police of aiding it. The AAP supremo said, “Amit Shah has taken command [of the BJP’s campaign] and the entire Delhi Police has been withdrawn from maintaining the law and order of Delhi and has been deployed for BJP’s campaigning and the entire Delhi Police is now doing BJP’s campaigning.”

The BJP lost the Assembly poll contests in Delhi badly in 2015 and 2020, he said, adding that the same fate awaits the saffron party this time as well. "So Amit Shah is now getting hooliganism done against the people of Delhi," Kejriwal alleged.