Farmers Movement Archive

AAP claims Kejriwal was kept under ‘house arrest’

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said that the party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was being kept “almost under house arrest” by the Central government’s Delhi Police. The party said that it would march to the party chief’s residence in Civil Lines and get him out. The Delhi Police is under the “ambit of the Central government” and not the Delhi government. “After the Chief Minister met farmers at Singhu border, the Central government’s Delhi Police, on directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has barricaded the house of the Chief Minister of Delhi from four sides and kept him almost under house arrest. No one can meet him and he cannot come out,” AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj. He claimed that when party MLAs went to meet the Chief Minister, Delhi Police beat them up. “Officers told us that there has been orders from the MHA to keep the Chief Minister at his house till the farmers’ protest goes on. All our volunteers will go from ITO to Arvind Kejriwal’s house,” Mr. Bharadwaj said. But the Delhi Police denied the claims made by AAP. “This claim of CM Delhi being put on house arrest is incorrect. He exercises his right to free movement within the law of the land. A picture of the house entrance says it all,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (north), said in a tweet.

The Hindu

2020-12-09

New Delhi