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New Delhi: Safety personnel hold a vigil outdoors the AAP’s workplace, in New Delhi, Friday, March 22, 2024. (Picture: PTI)
Safety personnel proceed to patrol central Delhi on Saturday amid a name by the AAP to collect at Shaheedi Park to protest in opposition to the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in reference to an excise policy-linked money-laundering case.
Delhi Minister Gopal Rai mentioned all AAP MLAs, councillors and office-bearers, and INDIA bloc representatives will collect at Shaheedi Park at 10 am on Saturday — the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev — and take a pledge to avoid wasting democracy.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann may even attend the programme, Rai mentioned.
Delhi Police officers mentioned roads resulting in Shaheedi Park have but to be shut however could also be closed relying on the state of affairs.
“In the event that they attempt to march or maintain a protest, motion will probably be taken,” a senior officer mentioned.
Visitors may additionally be hit in elements of central Delhi as a result of heavy barricading and police deployment.
An area court docket on Friday remanded Kejriwal within the Enforcement Directorate’s custody until March 28 “for his detailed and sustained interrogation” concerning his function within the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off.
Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, two ministers within the Kejriwal ministry, had been detained on Friday whereas protesting in opposition to the BJP over the chief minister’s arrest.
The 2 ministers and others had been taken away in police buses after they refused to disperse from the ITO intersection, which is close to the headquarters of the AAP and the BJP and the place prohibitory orders underneath Part 144 of the Code of Prison Process are in pressure.
Shaheedi Park, situated at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, is a few kilometre from the BJP’s headquarters at DDU Marg to which the AAP leaders wished to march and maintain a protest on Friday.
They had been stopped at ITO Chowk.
A police officer mentioned paramilitary personnel, together with these from the police, will stay deployed across the BJP headquarters.
“We could shut the roads and the metro stations, relying on the state of affairs,” the officer mentioned.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Central) Parmaditya mentioned safety personnel will proceed to stay deployed in central Delhi.
AAP leaders mentioned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will probably be burnt in all meeting constituencies of Delhi on Sunday.
Get together employees is not going to have a good time Holi on Monday, they mentioned and referred to as for a “gherao” of the prime minister’s residence on Tuesday.
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First Printed: Mar 23 2024 | 9:48 AM IST
