The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) dubbed the hunger strike of BJP MP Maheish Girri outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence as a "drama" and alleged that the Delhi Police is "shielding" him in the murder case of NDMC official MM Khan.
"Girri should refrain from doing nautanki (drama) by staging a hunger strike outside Arvind Kejriwal's residence. Unless he is arrested and questioned by police there could not be any talk of his innocence," Delhi AAP convener Dilip Pandey told a Press conference.
He asserted that both Girri and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Vice Chairman Karan Singh Tanwar were given clean chit and were outside the ambit of investigation in the murder case and accused the police of "shielding" them.
"Modiji's police is shielding them. If police were under the Delhi Government, both Girri and Tanwar would be in jail," Pandey said. He alleged that Girri "accompanied" Ramesh Kakkar (accused in Khan's murder case) to lt Governor's office in connection with the latter's hotel lease which was to be decided by Khan.
Showing the copy of a "covering letter" purportedly written by Girri, Pandey alleged that it was attached to Kakkar's letter to lt Governor regarding the lease issue. BJP is setting a new "trend" of adopting this "tactic" of staging dharna at Kejriwal's residence by those who have committed a wrong, Pandey claimed.