‘Operation jhaadu’ BJP ploy to send our leaders to jail, says Kejriwal

BJP has launched ‘operation jhaadu’ (broom) to send Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders to jail, AAP National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged on Sunday.

Kejriwal’s remarks have come during a protest march by AAP workers towards the BJP office in New Delhi, where police presence has been strengthened.

 

Addressing AAP workers and leaders at the party office on Sunday Kejriwal accused PM Modi and his party for starting operation jhadoo (broom, which also happens to be AAP's election symbol) so that AAP could not pose a challenge to the ruling party.

 

More AAP leaders will be arrested and in the coming days the party's bank accounts would be frozen, he said.

 

Kejriwal had earlier called for the protest march against the arrest of his aide Bibhav Kumar for allegedly assaulting his own party’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal. 

News agencies reported the DCP Delhi Central Harsha Vardhan Mandava as saying that preventive arrangements had been made at DDU Marg to maintain law and order.

Section 144 had also been imposed on DDU Marg with no permissions granted for any kind of protests there, he said.

Bibhav Kumar, who was arrested on Saturday was produced before the Tis Hazari Court, which remanded him in police custody for five days.