Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: A day after violent clashes erupted between Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party members, ex-Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to his party members to remain non violent.
Kejriwal, who has undertaken a four-day tour of Gujarat to verify the `development` claims today tweeted:
Violent clashes took place on Wednesday between AAP and BJP supporters in the national capital and Lucknow after Kejriwal was detained in Gujarat during his road show. Reports said that clashes also took place in Allahabad and an effigy of BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was burnt in Civil Lines area.
The windshield of Kejriwal`s car was damaged when Gujarat BJP workers attacked his convoy in retaliation to the protests by AAP workers in front of BJP headquarters in Delhi. Kejriwal on Wednesday accused the BJP of instigating violence in front of its headquarters in Delhi even as he apologised for some AAP activists "retaliating" while protesting his detention.
Kejriwal claimed that AAP workers were first attacked by BJP supporters. Some of the agitated AAP workers had responded by pelting "two or three stones", he told reporters here. "I am sorry for the mistakes committed by the AAP workers. They should not have resorted to violence on my detention," PTI quoted Kejriwal as saying.
With PTI inputs