New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Saurabh Bhardwaj on Sunday accused the central authorities of getting no tolerance for dissent, after he and a number of other different AAP leaders had been taken into preventive detention whereas making an attempt to carry a candle march in West Delhi’s Janakpuri.
Speaking to ANI, Bhardwaj described the motion as a mirrored image of a ‘dictatorship’ underneath the present dispensation. ‘This is a dictatorship. Lakhs of individuals take to the streets towards Trump within the USA, however none of them had been detained. We got here right here simply to gentle candles for the boy who died due to the federal government’s mistake, however we had been detained. The central authorities has no tolerance for anybody who even asks them for justice,’ he stated.
The remarks got here amid allegations by the Aam Aadmi Party of selective police motion. In a put up on X, Bhardwaj claimed that police intentionally took AAP leaders to a faraway police station. ‘Police introduced us to the farthest police station of Jafarpur close to the Haryana border. They didn’t arrest the primary contractor, ‘KK Spun’, however arrested us,’ he alleged.
Delhi Police, nonetheless, clarified that the AAP leaders had been positioned underneath preventive detention and denied any bias of their actions.
Earlier, talking to reporters, Bhardwaj accused the police of performing in a ‘dictatorial’ method, saying no grievance was registered regardless of repeated makes an attempt by the sufferer’s mother and father. He emphasised that the AAP leaders had gathered solely to pay tribute and weren’t staging any protest.
The incident pertains to the dying of a 25-year-old man who died after his bike fell into an open pit dug for Delhi Jal Board work in Janakpuri two days in the past. According to the celebration, AAP leaders weren’t even allowed to gentle candles, and police personnel allegedly stopped the peaceable gathering.
While being taken away in a police van, Bhardwaj went reside on social media, alleging that candles had been snatched and posters bearing the sufferer’s identify had been torn. He additional claimed {that a} delay in rescue occurred after the sufferer’s location, initially shared by police, was later deleted. (ANI)