Arvind Kejriwal Attacked With Chilli Powder Inside Delhi Secretariat, Attacker Arrested
The man who attacked Arvind Kejriwal was identified as Anil Sharma.
New Delhi, November 20: A man threw chilli power at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inside the Delhi Secretariat. The man who attacked Arvind Kejriwal was identified as Anil Sharma Hindustani. Kejriwal's spectacles got damaged in the attack. Sharma has been taken into custody. The attacker was waiting outside the Chief Minister's office and attacked him when Kejriwal stepped out, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj told IANS.
Following the attack, a scuffle broke out and Kejriwal's spectacles broke, a witness told IANS. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called it a breach of security of the Chief Minister. A person needs to go through a two-level security check to reach the Chief Minister's office. It is not the first time when the AAP chief was targetted despite heavy security around him. In October 2016, a leader of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP, a student body linked to the BJP, threw ink at Kejriwal in Rajasthan's Bikaner. Arvind Kejriwal Discharged in Criminal Defamation Case Filed by Subhash Chandra.
In January 2016, an AAP rebel had thrown ink at the Chief Minister at a Delhi stadium. In 2014, when Kejriwal was campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in Varanasi, unidentified people splashed ink on him. Eggs were also thrown at his car outside the Kashi Vishwanath temple. AAP Says Delhi Police Discriminating, Filed FIR Against Kejriwal but Not Against Tiwari.
Kejriwal was slapped twice during the 2014 campaigning. One of the attacks had left Kejriwal with a swollen face and eye. He and the AAP have been accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of colluding with the Delhi police to carry out attacks.
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