Delhi Polls: ‘BJP Conspiring To Defer Elections,’ AAP’s Sanjay Singh On Shaheen Bagh Shooting

Reacting to the incident, Singh said they had already warned the Election Commission that a conspiracy is being hatched by the BJP to postpone the polls.

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New Delhi: After the shooting incident at New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh launched an attack on the BJP and alleged that they want to disturb peace in Delhi to defer Assembly polls. Reacting to the incident, Singh said they had already warned the Election Commission that a conspiracy is being hatched by the BJP to postpone the polls. "There is no law and order in the country. The gun-toting men are not making Delhi their bastion (adda).We have been seeking time from the Election Commission since yesterday so that we can make them aware of these developments but they have not given us any time," he said. " I had warned earlier that BJP is hatching a conspiracy to disrupt peace to defer polls in Delhi. They know they will lose. They tried to do the same thing before the 2015 Delhi polls,” the Rajya Sabha MP said. Two days after a youth fired a pistol at a group of anti-CAA protesters near the Jamia university, another man on Saturday fired two rounds in the air at Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of the protest against the country's new citizenship law, and was later taken into custody. No one was injured in the incident that came even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a poll rally in Delhi's northwest Rohini area alleged that those who support terrorists in Kashmir are staging protest at Shaheen Bagh. The man, who identified himself as Kapil Gujjar, chanted Jai Shree Ram and said, "hamare desh me aur kisi ki nahi chalegi, sirf Hindu ki chalegi (only Hindus shall have a say in our country, no one else)," as he was taken into custody by the Delhi Police. In a veiled attack on the BJP over the incident, the Congress said the shooter has changed but the ideology pulling the trigger in 1948 or 2020 has remained the same. A man fired two rounds in air in the Shaheen Bagh area in Jamia Nagar, where an anti-CAA protest is on, following which he was taken into custody by police, eyewitnesses said. Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill tweeted,"Shooter changes but ideology pulling the trigger either in 1948 (Nathuram Godse) or 2020 remains the same 'Goli Maro' -- Hands which should be pulling India's growth are now firing guns."