Hoarding featuring Kejriwal torn down across Delhi: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was worried over the hoarding featuring AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and got it removed from the national capital.

The party claimed that around 150 legally installed hoardings across the city, carrying the message ‘Ek saal, Delhi behaal, Yaad Aa Rahe Arvind Kejriwal’ (In one year, Delhi is in distress, Arvind Kejriwal is being remembered), were torn down.

“Although Chief Minister Rekha Gupta mentions Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP government in each one of her public meetings, the BJP government is very afraid of the word Kejriwal even after one year,” AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said while addressing a press conference.

Mr. Bharadwaj said that AAP had installed hoardings in various parts of Delhi, such as Connaught Place, south Delhi, central Delhi, east Delhi, north Delhi, and across NDMC areas. “These were not illegal but fully legal hoardings. On Wednesday, these hoardings were installed at authorised sites after proper payment to MCD and NDMC vendors,” he said.

“But if one checks today, MCD and NDMC officials are tearing down these hoardings everywhere. Vendors are receiving threats from different phone numbers that if they do not remove the hoardings, they will not be given work by the Delhi government and will be blacklisted,” he said.

He alleged that the hoardings are not being kept because it states the truth, and the truth is hurting the BJP government. “What is written on the hoarding is on the lips of every Delhiite,” he added.

There was no immediate response from the BJP.