Delhi Minister, AAP MLA And Row That Began With Handshake And Ended With Slap
A Delhi BJP minister, Parvesh Verma, was recorded slapping an assistant to an AAP MLA during a road inspection in Tilak Nagar. The incident occurred amidst a dispute over the quality of road construction work.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the volatile nature of political discourse and the breakdown of decorum between rival political parties in India.
The slap came without a preamble. It just landed. As far as landings go, it wasn't very neat, the greater impact was felt near the ear and the neck, but electric enough to jolt the recipient immersed in recording the man in front: his attacker and Delhi BJP Minister Parvesh Verma, 48, who famously defeated Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi polls.The 22-year-old bespectacled victim, Sahib Singh, was not even the protagonist or the villain in the chain of events unfolding on Sunday afternoon in Tilak Nagar in West Delhi. But he now is a political cause celebre.
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