Don’t arrest those who put up posters against me: CM Kejriwal

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is scheduled to begin its ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ (Remove Modi, Save the Nation) campaign on Thursday afternoon a day after police registered several FIRs, most for public defacement, after posters asking for PM Modi’s removal came up. Four people have been arrested as well.

Posters against Kejriwal call him “dishonest, corrupt and dictatorial” adding, ‘Kejriwal Hatao, Dilli Bachao’ (Remove Kejriwal, Save Delhi).

“Unlike the hush hush, stealthy way in which you (the AAP) printed and pasted those posters, ours bear the name of who has got them made; we aren’t scared of owning up to them like you,” Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana said.

Calling the Prime Minister insecure, Kejriwal had said Wednesday that the former “thinks about whom he can send to jail every morning”.

The chief minister’s comments had come in the wake of the Delhi Police registering 49 FIRs and arresting four people, including two printing press owners, for ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ posters which appeared on walls and poles across the capital. The police alleged that one of the arrested men disclosed that his employer had asked him to deliver the posters to the AAP headquarters.

“We are not scared to seek the removal of a chief minister who used to set standards of corruption but against whom new scams are surfacing every day, and two of whose key colleagues are behind bars,” Khurana added.

The AAP, meanwhile, led by Kejriwal, will kickstart the ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ campaign from Jantar Mantar on Thursday. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will also attend the public meeting.