AAP steps up stir against CEC; bid to vitiate atmosphere: BJP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday intensified its agitation against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, seeking his removal, and demanded action against the police officer whom three women journalists have accused of sexual harassment.

Traffic movement in central Delhi was temporarily restricted as hundreds of personnel from Delhi Police, Central Armed Police Forces and the Rapid Action Force were deployed, along with buses and PCR vans, to prevent the protest march called by various organisations, civil society groups and student organisations, including AAP’s student wing — the Association of Students for Alternative Politics.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), meanwhile, accused AAP of trying to “vitiate Delhi’s political atmosphere” and disrupt law and order.

AAP staged protests outside the Parliament Street police station and later at India Gate, where at least 25 of its members were detained while trying to march towards the headquarters of the Election Commission.