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Days after Delhi Police filed over 100 FIRs and arrested six people in relation with posters asking for the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that came up across the city, a new set of posters, asking “whether India needed an educated Prime Minister”, have come up in different parts of the city, including outside the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) headquarters, on Thursday.
“Kya Bharat ke PM padhe-likhe hone chahiye?” the posters stated.
The AAP kicked-off a national campaign against PM Modi as part of which thousands of posters attacking the PM have been put up. The AAP said in a statement that the campaign was aimed at targeting the BJP government and its policies that have “failed to address the issues faced by the common man”.
Delhi AAP convenor Gopal Rai said the campaign has been kicked off in 22 states, including Punjab, Gujarat, West Bengal, Odisha , Assam, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is stubbornly dismantling the democratic structure of the nation and eliminating the Opposition. This is a direct assault on India’s democratic structure and constitution… The government is attempting to curtail the independence of investigative agencies and shattering Indians’ faith in the integrity of the investigative and judicial processes,” Rai said.
Delhi BJP, meanwhile, said that such posters will only add to Modi’s popularity. Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana sought to “caution” the AAP against the approach.
“Kejriwal sahab, the more propaganda against the Prime Minister Modi you engage in, attack him, the more his popularity increases; we have experienced this over the last few years. Remember this,” Khurana said.
The Indian Express had reported that several cases of defacement of public property and pasting posters without the name of a publisher had been registered and several people allegedly connected to ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ posters had been arrested recently, including a driver and two printing press owners.
AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak also alleged that police personnel were asked to take down the posters in several places, including near the AAP, BJP and Congress offices on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, and the posters were removed.
The Delhi Police said that it had not received any complaints in the matter so far and no FIRs had been registered.
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