Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 10: Joining a protest here against detention of the party’s Doda MLA Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act (PSA), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha Member, Sanjay Singh accused the BJP as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to crush AAP wherever its footprints increase.
“The BJP and the Prime Minister do only one thing — wherever the Aam Aadmi Party progresses and its footprints increase, they try to suppress and crush it. The most important thing they do is file false cases against us and put our leaders in jail,” Singh alleged and listed the arrests of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, himself and now Mehraj Malik.
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Flanked by senior party functionary Imran Hussain, Singh alleged that the BJP was behind every conspiracy against AAP. “This is visible even here. Anyone who speaks against the BJP is branded a drug peddler or worse,” he said.
The AAP leader blamed the administration for the unrest in Doda and said: “Law and order is under the BJP’s control, and they are deliberately creating these problems.”
Sanjay Singh maintained that the party and its leadership will fight this “unlawful act” from the streets to the Parliament and the courts. “This is completely unconstitutional and illegal. The convenor of Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, has announced that we will continue this fight until we get justice. We are not the kind of people who will remain silent,” he said.
Taking a dig at the dossier prepared by the administration to detain Malik under PSA, he said it is just a bundle of cases, with claims that Mehraj Malik makes spontaneous statements, goes live on Facebook, has 2 lakh followers, and these somehow influence people – all baseless allegations.
Asked whether the Omar Abdullah Government is facing the same issues that the AAP Government faced in Delhi, he replied that he had already spoken about this before the elections. “Omar Abdullah had emphasised the need to fight against all such draconian laws and stood for the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Today, it is time to deliver on those promises,” he said.
To a query on the alleged use of abusive language by MLA Malik against officials, he retorted that officials often use abusive language toward the public. “Visit police stations and Government offices, and you will witness it yourself. Crores of people across the country face false charges, cases, and verbal abuse from officials, including police personnel. Expressing our opinions does not make us terrorists,” he said.
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