Chandigarh

Kejriwal's car meets with minor accident in Punjab

PNS

 Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal’s car was involved in a minor accident on Friday near Jalandhar on the second day of his Punjab tour.

The Toyota Innova multi-utility vehicle (MUV) was slightly damaged and Kejriwal was shifted to another car in his cavalcade and continued his journey towards Amritsar.

No one was injured in the accident. The bumper of Kejriwal’s car was damaged, said Police.

Besides Kejriwal, others in his car were AAP leaders Bhagwant Mann and Gurpreet Ghuggi.

A police officer said that a car in the AAP leader’s cavalcade hit his vehicle while trying to avoid a three-wheeler on the highway. The cavalcade was descending from a flyover near the Punjab Armed Police (PAP) campus on the outskirts of Jalandhar.

Kejriwal was travelling from ludhiana to Amritsar.

The AAP leader started his four-day political tour of Punjab on Thursday at a time when the party’s state unit and its leadership is facing an internal crisis.