Delhi Police have arrested fourteen Aam Aadmi Party, members after an FIR was registered against them in connection with clashes outside the BJP office in New Delhi yesterday.
Police sources said, the FIR was lodged at Parliament Street Police Station last night against the AAP protesters including its leaders Ashutosh and Shazia Ilmi.
Police sources said charges of rioting, obstructing a public servant from performing his duty and damaging public property have been slapped against them.
Talking to AIR, Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Deepak Maheshwari said prominent educationist Prof Anand Kumar is also one of the arrested members.
He said the party will lodge a formal complaint with the Election Commission on what he called unprovoked attrocities against party members by the police.
Maheshwari expressed surprise that no BJP member involved in the clashes has been arrested so far. He said the party will file a counter FIR against the police.
Our correspondent reports that Police had initially detained 33 people out of which 14 were arrested late last night while others were allowed to go. 28 people were injured in the clashes between members of the two parties.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal today apologized for his party workers' behavior in Delhi and Lucknow while protesting his detention and urged them to stick to non-violence.
He was reacting to media queries at Bhuj in Kutch district during his four days tour to the home state of BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate.
Mr. Kejriwal said it was going to happen as some of them retaliated after they were attacked. I apologize for their behavior and urge them to remain non-violent.
Our Ahmedabad correspondent reports that AAP workers had clashed with BJP workers in Delhi and Lucknow after the detention of their party Chief Arvind Kejriwal by Gujarat police in Radhanpur yesterday.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia. who along with AAP convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is on a four-day visit to Gujarat, has accused the Gujarat Police of spying on him.
In a tweet, Sisodia alleged that police was troubling, questioning and threatening people he had met since last evening.
The BJP has urged the Election Commisson to take strict action against Aam Aadmi Party for yesterday's clashes in Delhi and Lucknow.
A Party delegation led by senior leader Harsh Vardhan today met the Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath in New Delhi and complained that Aam Aadmi Party resorted to violence to derail election process.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Dr Vardhan said the Commission assured them to take appropriate action in the matter. The BJP leader said the party has also passed a resolution requesting President Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to take action against the Aam Aadmi Party. In the resolution, the party condemned violence allegedly unleashed by Aam Aadmi Party workers.
