“Why a ‘terrorist’ inducted in BJP”? Aam Aadmi Party
By Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: Hours after taking into its fold, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was forced to expel Kapil Gujjar, the man who opened fire in Shaheen Bagh during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in February 2020 on Wednesday. A political storm was kicked up after his induction by Ghaziabad BJP president into the party fold. Delhi’s ruling party Aam Aadmi Party posed a question to the BJP why a person whom BJP national president had called him a ‘terrorist’ was inducted in first place.
While addressing media persons here at the Party office, AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj on Wednesday reminded that BJP chief JP Nadda called Gujjar as ‘terrorist’.
“Just 72 hours before the Delhi assembly election when the model code of conduct was in place then Delhi police said that Kapil Gujjar has an association with the Aam Aadmi Party. Thereafter BJP President JP Nadda said that Kapil Gujar is a terrorist and the Aam Aadmi Party is giving shelter to such terrorists”, he recalled.
Today on behalf of the Aam Aadmi Party I want to ask the BJP that why a terrorist is joining their party, he asked.
Gujjar’s joining to the BJP clearly exposes BJP’s plan is to create a riot in Delhi, he alleged.
He also made a weird allegation that “the BJP wrote the script of Shaheen Bagh to create communal disharmony in Delhi and to gain political advantage out of it; earlier the key organizers of Shaheen Bagh also joined the BJP”.
When being asked about this allegation, he responded by saying that “From the very first day the Aam Aadmi Party is in the view that the Shaheen Bagh protest might be started by a group of pro-democratic people but then BJP took over the control of this protest”.
He pointed out that during the Delhi assembly polls campaigning, BJP single-mindedly focused the Shaheen Bagh protest and used it to communalise electioneering and spread hatred.
“The BJP instigated both the communities against each other. Everybody was feared that any time a communal riot can take place in the national capital. Everybody was feared that if such riot happens then innocent people will die,” he added.
“Some days before the election a person named Kapil Gujjar appeared at Shaheen Bagh and opened fire who also raised pro-BJP slogans. Everything happened in front of the Delhi police but police personnel remained silent spectators,” he said and alleged that many organizers of the Shaheen Bagh protest joined the BJP.
Meanwhile, Ghaziabad BJP president Sanjeev Sharma., who inducted Gujjar into the party, said in a statement that ‘they were not aware of his connection with the Shaheen Bagh protest”.