‘It will be a contest between India and Pak’
NEWDELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday stepped up its attack on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress for supporting anticitizenship Amendment Act protesters at Shaheen Bagh and other areas in the city.
The BJP criticised the ongoing Shaheen Bagh protests, referring to it as “Shame Bagh”, and took on deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for supporting the agitators.
Earlier in the day, Sisodia told a news channel, “I stand by the people of Shaheen Bagh…it is not my responsibility to clear the Shaheen Bagh route.”
Kapil Mishra, the BJP’S candidate for the Assembly elections from Model Town, on Thursday said the Delhi elections will be a contest between “India and Pakistan”, terming the anti-caa protest sites as “mini-pakistan”.
“Pakistan has entered Shaheen Bagh. Mini-pakistans are being created in the city. The law of the land is not being followed in Shaheen Bagh, Chand Bagh and Indralok. Pakistani rioters are occupying Delhi roads,” Mishra tweeted.
In another tweet, he accused
AAP and Congress of supporting “mini-pakistan”. “India Vs Pakistan. There will a contest on Delhi Roads between India and Pakistan on February 8,” Mishra tweeted. The elections are scheduled for February 8.
Asked for a reaction to Mishra’s remark, senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh asked, “Who Kapil Mishra”. The AAP leader made a jibe at the BJP leader saying, “Has he joined BCCI? I had no idea.” The BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in India] is the sport’s governing body in India.
A former minister in AAP’S government in Delhi, Mishra left the party in 2019.
Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra hit out at Mishra and said the BJP should be embarrassed for “dividing the country” along religion lines. “The Congress has always stood to protect the secular fabric of this country and we respect the right of people to peacefully protest. It is their right. The people of India will vote against the divisive politics of the BJP,” Chopra said
Taking on Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel said, “This is the AAP leader who had instigated and provoked the people against CAA,” and termed Shaheen Bagh as “Shame Bagh” .