The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held protest against the BJP and arrest of the party’s supremo Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate on Sunday. In view of the AAP’s protest programme, the Delhi Police has beefed up security in the n🎀ational capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on ♕March 21 by the 💧ED in connection with the now-꧃scrapped excise policy case. The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday remanded Kejriwal to six days of ED custody till 28 March.
The Delhi Police has deployed barricades on roads leading to BJP headquarters, ITO, and 𒁏in front of t💖he probe agency’s office, where AAP leaders and supporters are likely to gather.
Top points of AAP’s Sunday protest programme:
AAP leader Gopal Rai on Sunday announced that INDIA bloc will hold 'maha rally' a𓄧t Delhi's Ramlila M🌳aidan on March 31 to "safeguard country".
Delhi Minister and AAP leader Atishi also said the entire INDIA alliance will organise a 'maha rally' at 10 am on March 31 at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to "safeguard the democracy" in this c🌃ountry.
AAP workers on Sunday demonstrated on the ITO foot-over bridge in Delhi in protest against the arrest of their chief Arvind Kejriwal by ED. They shouted slogans against the BJP. Later, they were📖 removed from the spot by the Delhi Poli♐ce.
The AAP has said the party’s le♔aders and supporters are likely t🅺o gather at Shaheedi Park to protest against the BJP. Reportedlꦗy, the INDIA bloc is also likely to join the AAP workers' proꦯtest against Arvind Kejriwal's dramatic arrest on Thursday by the ED in a now-scrapped Delhi liquor excise policy case. AAP said there will be candle marches and burning of effigies in today's protest.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejr🐻iwal on Sunday issued first work order from ED custody. He instructed to solve water-related problems in the national cap𝔉ital areas.
Earlier, during AAP’s Saturday protest, Delhi Cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj were detained by the police. The two ministers and others were taken away in police buses af൲ter they refused to disperse from Central Delhi's ITO intersection, which is near the headquarters of the AAP and the BJP.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal moved the high court and challenged ꦇhis arrest by the ED but the court is unlikely to grant an urgent hearing. His plea is unlikely to be heard before March 27 as the court is closed for Holi.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal on Saturday 🍨evening met him at the ED office.
On Saturday, Sunita Kejriwal read out her husband's message, through a video link. She quoted her husband as saying that he cannot be kept behind bars for long and wil🔯l return soon to fulfill his promises to the people.
AAP workers said they will not celebrate Holi and have called for a "ꦦgherao" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residenc♏e on Tuesday.
The AAP ask𓆏ed the ED on Saturday to file a case against th🍨e BJP, alleging that the saffron party received crores of rupees from an accused in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam through electoral bonds.
