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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal blames Modi government for court violence

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that Delhi Police is “openly flouting” Supreme Court orders and wondered what instructions Commissioner BS Bassi has from his “bosses” after an attack on JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar and mediapersons at Patiala Court premises.

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“They (the government) are trying to impose the flawed RSS ideology on students… to crush their imagination, their dreams”, Rahul Gandhi told reporters here after meeting President Pranab Mukherjee over the escalating student agitation in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi and elsewhere in the country.

A person lodged a police complaint against the Delhi CM in Hyderabad seeking “appropriate action” against him for “hurting religious sentiments”.

Open defiance of the Supreme Court directions by the Delhi Police on Wednesday is an extremely serious issue, which clearly shows that this force is ready to defy even the rule of law to please its political masters.

Mr Maken, who heads Congress’ Delhi units, contended that the Arvind Kejriwal’s government had been running an advertisement campaign that cost approximately Rs. 100 crore.

Kejriwal said that among other things he had also apprised the President about his concern over the Delhi police’s inability to arrest the real culprits who had chanted anti-India slogans.

The chief minister also said he has sought time from the President to discuss the law and order situation in the national capital.

Singh, who was assisted by advocates Aman Panwar and Mudit Gupta, told the court that the Delhi government had failed to allocate adequate resources for salaries of poor employees and sanitation workers of municipal corporations.

“When the slogan is “Pakistan zindabad” then Mr. Rahul Gandhi should know that this slogan is not a slogan of Bharatiya Janata party but it is against the country”. According to him, the caller asked him to shut up over the JNU issue.

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“Over the last few months, the NDA government has displayed a risky tendency of undermining democratic freedoms and crushing the voices of those who do not share their views”, the party leaders said in the memorandum.

Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi