Sunday evening didn’t go as planned for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a scuffle broke out at a party meeting in Rohini, where party spokesperson Ashutosh was heckled by former party MlA Rajesh Garg and his supporters.
According to reports, the problem began after Garg raised the issue of problems faced by engineering students. Garg, who won the 2013 Assembly elections from Rohini on behalf of AAP, has been replaced by Charanji lal Gupta this time. During the meeting, Garg and his supporters allegedly heckled Ashutosh and told him to answer their “questions”.
Garg alleged, “He was prepared to run. He brought some goons on stage. What was he scared aboutIJ He should have the courage to hear the truth.” However, the party played down the incident with Ashutosh later, saying there was some commotion but “nothing serious about it”.
“Yesterday (Sunday), I had gone there for a meeting and my colleague and (former) MlA Rajesh Garg was there. He was denied a ticket so he was angry and he was with his supporters. He tried to do some hungama and some commotion, nothing serious about it. When he was getting a little bit more uncomfortable, I tried to avoid the situation and left the scene,” said Ashutosh.
However, according to sources, Ashutosh had to eventually run away from the spot as Garg’s supporters had gheraoed him. Sources said that Ashutosh jumped over a wall and got out of the chaos.