Two days after the police crackdown on posters focused on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, comparable posters calling for the ouster of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal emerged in Delhi this morning. Thousands of posters wearing the slogan “Modi hatao, desh bachao (eliminate Modi, keep the country)” have been eliminated with the aid of using the law enforcement officials in a big operation on Tuesday. Six human beings, consisting of proprietors of a printing press, have been arrested and numerous instances have been filed following the incident.
The cutting-edge posters that emerged nowadays slammed Mr Kejriwal as a “dishonest, corrupt dictator”, and carried the slogan “eliminate Arvind Kejriwal, keep Delhi”. The posters claimed they have been positioned up with the aid of using BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa. Mr Kejriwal stated he has visible the posters calling for his ouster and that everybody has the proper to stick such posters in a democracy.
“I don`t have any trouble with such posters. I can not apprehend why the printing press proprietor and the six terrible guys who have been pasting the posters have been arrested yesterday. This indicates the PM is scared. What distinction does it make if 4 human beings paste such posters? It does not appearance appropriate that this kind of effective high minister has to address this,” he stated.
The poster battle is the cutting-edge in a string of BJP-AAP face-offs after the arrest of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia withinside the new liquor coverage case. The arrests have been made for defacing public belongings and the posters have been required to hold the call of the printing press below regulation, stated police explaining their action. Of the 138 instances filed, 36 have been for anti-PM Modi posters, they added.
Mr Kejriwal discarded the police rationalization and stated that the PM is “scared”. “FIRs (first facts reports) were filed over the posters. Why is Modi ji so scared? Anyone can positioned up this poster. Such a scared Prime Minister, such an insecure Prime Minister,” he stated.
The law enforcement officials additionally seized a few 2,000 posters that have been allegedly being brought in a van to the AAP office. The AAP, in a tweet, sought to realize what became objectionable withinside the posters and termed it the “height of Modi government’s dictatorship”. It has additionally introduced a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi nowadays to call for the PM’s ouster.
The BJP slammed the AAP for violating the regulation whilst placing up the posters. “AAP does not have the braveness to mention that they positioned up the protests. They broke the regulation whilst placing up the posters,” stated Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana.
Meanwhile, the printing press proprietors, who have been arrested for now no longer wearing the printing press’ call at the posters, instructed the law enforcement officials that they’d obtained an order to print 50,000 “Modi hatao, desh bachao” posters.