Ink thrown at Arvind Kejriwal, two ABVP men detained

Chief minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal after facing an ink attack by ABVP workers in Bikaner on Tuesday night. ( Photo: PTI)

Two ABVP activists threw ink at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in Transport Nagar of Rajasthan’s Bikaner district for his comments on surgical strikes by the Army on terror launch pads across the LoC.

ABVP activists on Tuesday raised slogans against the Aam Aadmi Party national convener and threw ink at him, Kote Gate police station assistant sub-inspector Birbal said.

Following the ink attack, ABVP activists Dinesh Ojha and Vikram Singh were taken into custody, he said.

Mr Kejriwal was here to visit the house of AAP worker Hiralal Sevta to console him on his wife’s death. Reacting to the ink attack, Mr Kejriwal wished the attackers “well”.

“Hmmm... God bless those who threw ink at me. I wish them well,” he tweeted Tuesday night.

Earlier, several activ-ists of a right-wing gro-up on Tuesday showed black flags to Mr Kejriwal in Nokha town when he was on his way to Bikaner from Jodhpur.

In a rare gesture, Mr Kejriwal had on Monday “saluted” PM Narendra Modi for the surgical strikes in PoK by the Army.