By PTI
NEW DELHI: Amid the raging row over BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga’s arrest, the Congress on Friday accused the BJP and AAP of conducting “experiments” to discourage folks from asking questions utilizing the police and stated their “modus operandi” is similar.
Asked in regards to the arrest of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani earlier and of Bagga on Friday, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh hit out on the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party, saying first the “holding company” arrested Mevani after which the “subsidiary company” arrested Bagga.
“Understand the chronology, this is not ‘sanyog (coincidence) but a proyog (experiment). This is a ‘proyog’ to tell you that if you ask questions you will be arrested. This is a ‘prayog’ to say that we are not their (BJP’s) B-team,” Vallabh stated.
“But you (AAP) are their (the BJP’s) B-team because you both have the same modus operandi,” he alleged.
Asserting one’s proper to ask questions in a democracy, Vallabh requested why rapidly the federal government of India needs to ascertain “police raj” In a high-voltage drama, a Delhi Police crew took the custody of BJP chief Bagga en route in Kurukshetra from the Punjab Police, which had arrested him from his dwelling within the nationwide capital on Friday.
The Punjab Police crew was stopped in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, with a Haryana Police official saying that they had info that Bagga was “forcibly” detained from his residence.
A Delhi Police crew reached Kurukshetra, took Bagga’s custody, and left for Delhi, a Kurukshetra police official stated over the cellphone.
Earlier within the day, the Delhi Police lodged a case of kidnapping after the chief’s arrest.