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New Delhi
The uproar implicit the purported video containing “disparaging” remarks connected Guru Tegh Bahadur by elder Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Atishi, which the Punjab constabulary person claimed is “doctored”, intensified successful Delhi and Punjab connected Sunday.
While Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of provoking communal unrest successful the State by sharing a “tampered” video of Ms. Atishi connected societal media, AAP workers staged a objection extracurricular the BJP office demanding the resignation of Law Minister Kapil Mishra for sharing the “fake” video connected societal media.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP main Virendra Sachdeva posted the purported video connected X and urged enactment workers to bash the same. He dared AAP nationalist convener Arvind Kejriwal and the Punjab authorities to registry FIRs against him and BJP workers.
The background
The enactment started connected January 7, erstwhile BJP MLAs held a protest, demanding the cancellation of Ms. Atishi’s Assembly rank implicit the purported remark that they alleged the erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister had made successful the House the erstwhile day. On January 8, AAP accused Mr. Mishra of posting online an “edited” and “fake” clip of Ms. Atishi, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) successful Delhi. A time later, the Punjab constabulary registered an FIR regarding the “doctored” video posted by Mr. Mishra connected X. In response, Delhi Speaker Vijender Gupta connected Saturday issued notices to elder Punjab constabulary officers implicit their “unwarranted interference with the spot of the House”, adjacent arsenic protests implicit the purported remarks picked up steam successful Punjab, with the Opposition parties demanding the LoP’s arrest.
‘Divisive politics’
Hitting retired astatine the BJP for sharing an “edited” video of Ms. Atishi, saying it amounted to “beadbi (sacrilege)”, Mr. Mann said his authorities would not let “politics of hatred” to dispersed successful the State. “Ever since its inception, the BJP has pursued the authorities of communalism, divisiveness and hatred. With the Punjab Assembly predetermination approaching, the enactment has started implementing this docket successful Punjab to disagreement radical connected sectarian lines,” alleged Mr. Mann. The State volition spell to the polls successful 2027.
He added, “The BJP had morphed the video of the erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister by inserting its ain subtitles. Even the forensic probe [by Punjab Police] has intelligibly established that the connection ‘Guru’ was ne'er utilized by the AAP leader.”
Delhi AAP main Saurabh Bharadwaj demanded a nationalist apology for the “beadabi committed by BJP Ministers and leaders against the Guru Sahib” and sought ineligible enactment against them.
‘Not afraid’
Hitting back, Mr. Sachdeva said BJP workers successful Delhi “aren’t acrophobic of baseless FIRs”. “Arvind Kejriwal is present apprehensive that his authorities successful Punjab is besides connected the verge of collapse. In this authorities of panic, helium is misusing the constabulary unit to intimidate the radical of Delhi and BJP workers,” helium said.
