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  PM Modi behind arrest of our MLAs: Ashutosh

PM Modi behind arrest of our MLAs: Ashutosh

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Jul 29, 2016, 2:09 am IST
Updated : Jul 29, 2016, 2:09 am IST

A day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the PM can “get him killed,” the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi

A day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the PM can “get him killed,” the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the “kingpin” behind the “targeting” of its MLAs in Delhi and claimed more of its legislators may be arrested but the party won’t be cowed down.

His remarks came a day after party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the PM, even saying that Mr Modi may “get me killed” and asked AAP MLAs to be ready for “ultimate sacrifice” in the wake of “unprecedented crackdown” by the BJP government. “Our two MLAs — Naresh Yadav and Amanatullah Khan — were arrested in a day. The police misbehaved with Khan’s family and forcibly picked him. The same treatment has been meted out to deputy speaker Rakhi Birlan. The kingpin behind the subsequent attacks on our MLAs is Modiji only,” senior party leader Ashustosh said.

“Similarly, MLA Sharad Chauhan was interrogated for over nine hours, that too regarding an issue in which an FIR was registered after the AAP’s intervention,” he added.

Ashutosh referred to arrests of 10 MLAs, income tax raid against one legislator and “attempts to disqualify” 21 MLAs appointed as parliamentary secretaries to ministers through “false allegations.”

“I have got to know from my sources that Rakhi and Chauhan may also be arrested by this evening,” he said.

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