Amid ongoing controversy over his former secretary Bibhav Kumar accused of assaulting his party MP Swati Maliwal inside his residence, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced a ‘jail bharo’ programme by the AAP leaders to be held on Sunday at BJP headquarters at around 12 noon.
The Chief Minister said all leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party will go to the BJP headquarters at 12 noon and ask for arrest.
Kejriwal’s remark came shortly after Bibhav Kumar, his aide and former personal secretary, was arrested by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged assault of AAP MP Swati Maliwal.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he will go to BJP headquarters tomorrow with AAP leaders and workers and challenged the ruling party to arrest whoever it wants.
Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the BJP wants to crush the Aam Aadmi Party by putting its leaders and workers in jail. His aide, Bibhav Kumar, was arrested today in Swati Maliwal assault case.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “playing jail khel”, a few hours after his personal secretary Bibhav Kumar was arrested in the Swati Maliwal assault case. The Delhi CM, while addressing a media briefing announced that he, along with AAP leaders, MPs and MLAs will march towards BJP headquarters on Sunday at noon and “you can put in jail whoever you want”.
On the other hand, reacting to Arvind Kejriwal’s “you can put in jail whoever you want” stance, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdev slammed the AAP national convenor over the “jail bharo drama” and questioned his silence for six days after a woman MP was beaten up at his residence.
A day after Delhi Police booked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar on charges of allegedly assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday took on the issue, fielding its top brass to attack the party convener for maintaining silence in the case.
Leading the charge, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the CM must apologise while Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur slammed the opposition INDIA bloc for not taking the matter up.
AAP MP from Rajya Sabha, Swati Maliwal the former chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), had alleged that she was “slapped, hit on the stomach, and kicked” by Kumar at the Delhi CM’s residence on May 13.
