BJP slams AAP over ruckus in Delhi Assembly, demands probe

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the alleged thrashing of two men in the Delhi Assembly by some of the ruling party MLAs for throwing paper missiles in the House and demanded a thorough probe into it by a fact-finding committee.

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta felt it was strange that the "offending" visitors were ordered to be jailed for 30 days by the speaker but "not a word" was said against the AAP MLAs "who took law into their hands".

"AAP dissenters who threw chits in the Assembly had got passes frm AAP MLA Rakhi Birla. CM Kejriwal can't deny rebellion within party anymore (sic)," he tweeted later.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari dubbed the incident as an "outcome of arrogance" of the AAP government and claimed that the two visitors were issued passes on the recommendation from a ruling party MLA.

"The BJP has continuously been raising questions on the need of the so-called special Assembly sessions being convened by the government. After today's violence, we urge the LG to prorogue the current session, so that the next one cannot be convened without his permission," he said.

The visitors, identified as Rajan Kumar and Jagdeep Rana, threw paper missiles from the visitors' gallery in the House while a session was underway, leading to a scuffle in which the two were allegedly thrashed by some AAP legislators.

The BJP MLAs demanded the suspension of the AAP legislator, on whose recommendation, they alleged, passes were issued to the two visitors.

"The passes were issued to the visitors by an AAP MLA, who should be suspended for two sessions of the Assembly," Gupta said in a statement.

He demanded a five-member fact-finding committee, also comprising BJP MLAs, to look into the incident, especially the "manhandling" of the offenders and how they got entry to the visitors' gallery.

A note found printed inside the paper missiles claimed that the two visitors were AAP workers, who took the step as they were unhappy with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party and the alleged "corruption cases" against PWD and Health Minister Satyendar Jain.