AAP supporters clash with BJP workers in Delhi over Kejriwal’s detention in Gujarat

Police resorted to use of water canon to disperse the demonstrators.

Scores of AAP supporters today staged a protest outside BJP headquarters here today hours after Arvind Kejriwal was detained in Radhanpur town of North Gujarat for violation of model code of conduct.

Police resorted to use of water canon to disperse the demonstrators. AAP activists also clashed with BJP workers.

The demonstrators had reached the BJP headquarters at 11 Ashoka Road at around 5 PM. They shouted anti-Modi slogans claiming that the Gujarat police acted on the behest of BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate.

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As he embarked on his four-day tour to verify Modi’s claims of providing water, power, education and healthcare to people of his state, the former Delhi Chief Minister was taken to Radhanpur police station in north Gujarat and allowed to go after half an hour.

Kejriwal alleged that the police had acted on the “orders from the top”. “We came to know in the morning itself that all the DSPs have been instructed to stop Kejriwal under any circumstances. Modi has also been sending some people with black flags. We know they will resort to such tactics,” Kejriwal said.

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