Arvind Kejriwal in video message to AAP supporters: Modi is so frustrated he can get me killed
The Delhi Chief Minister alleged that PM Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah could get senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including him, killed.
In Short
- The Delhi chief minister posted the message on Twitter and Facebook.
- Accused the BJP of leading a planned and orchestrated attack on his party.
- He said that the PM is frustrated and agitated.
In a rare video message addressed to the "common man", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah could get senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including him, killed.
In an open appeal to his party colleagues, ministers and legislators, Kejriwal said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was passing through "a critical time" and the situation was sure to worsen.
"They have eliminated everybody. Do you see the Congress raising their voice? Rohit Vemula was killed? Everybody is silent," Kejriwal said in a video posted on YouTube. "But they are not successful in eliminating the AAP and its motivation," he added.
"I am telling all the AAP supporters. Discuss within your families and brace yourselves for a huge conflict. The forces out there are so frustrated they can kill anybody, including me," the Aam Aadmi Party leader alleged.
"Ten MLAs of the AAP have been arrested in all kinds of cases. Our MP Bhagwant Mann is being hounded in a hyped case. They have decided to crush AAP through such fabricated cases," he said.
AAP leader Mann, Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur, has been suspended from the Lok Sabha by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for live-streaming his journey to Parliament last week. A nine-member parliamentary panel is investigating whether the video posted on Facebook breached Parliament security.
"They want to grab power. There are two ways of getting it: do good work and people will vote for you. But today, everybody is angry with the BJP and its government - students, minorities, Dalits, youths... So the other way of grabbing power is to eliminate your opponents," the AAP convener said, accusing Modi and Shah of going after the AAP.
SERIES OF AAP ARRESTS
Kejriwal's nine-minute statement follows a spate of arrests of AAP legislators in Delhi and what he said were efforts to disqualify 21 other legislators on the issue of holding office of profit.
Eleven AAP MLAs have been arrested by the Delhi Police and their Punjab counterpart in different cases since the party came to power in Delhi for a second time in February last year.
Last week, the Delhi Police, controlled by the Centre, had arrested Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with allegations by a woman that he had tried to mow her down with his car while Mehrauli MLA Naresh Yadav was arrested by Punjab Police in connection with the alleged Malerkotla sacrilege incident.
The AAP has said it will approach the Delhi High Court soon with details of all "false" cases "framing" its lawmakers and accused the Centre of clamping an "undeclared emergency" in the city.
Reacting angrily to the arrests, Kejriwal had said the AAP government and the BJP-ruled Centre are locked in a "holy war" like the "Kauravas and Pandavas". His video message today will further escalate the tension between the Centre and the Delhi government.
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