Protests mark Arvind Kejriwal's train ride from Delhi to Ludhiana

Arvind Kejriwal was greeted with more protests by the BJP's Mahlia Morcha as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener reached Ludhiana today to kick-start his Assembly election campaign.

A large group of women belonging to both the BJP and the Congress shouted slogans, including "Kejriwal go back". Some Congress workers also allegedly threw bangles at the AAP leader.

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KEJRIWAL HECKLED THIS MORNING

The BJP women's wing had also allegedly manhandled and heckled Kejriwal this morning when he reached New Delhi railway station to take a train to Ludhina, with the AAP calling it a "pre-planned" attack and accusing the Delhi Police personnel present there of being "mute spectators".

BJP activists managed to come close to Kejriwal and demanded his statement on the alleged "misconduct" of his MLAs, and the expulsion of Ashutosh for his controversial blog defending Sandeep Kumar, who was sacked as minister over an alleged sex scandal last week.

BJP QUESTIONS KEJRIWAL'S SILENCE OVER KUMAR

The BJP has questioned the Delhi Chief Minister's "silence" over Kumar, who is in custody after a sex tape featuring him and two other women became public last week.

Kejriwals deputy Manish Sisodia questioned the lapse in the Chief Minister's security. "Is Modi ji conspiring with the Delhi Police and the BJP to attack Arvind Kejriwal? Was the morning episode (manhandling of the CM) a rehearsal to it?" Sisodia tweeted.

Kejriwal's AAP is now eyeing Punjab where elections are due early next year after the party's landslide victory in Delhi in 2015.