From scuffle between the crowd and the Delhi Police, the Aam Aadmi Party’s rally at Jantar Mantar unfolded with high drama and ended in controversies amid a sea of common man gathering at the site to lend their support to their netas. Hours into the rally, a farmer committed suicide under the spectacle of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with contractual teachers raising slogans against the Delhi Government to demand permanence of jobs; the rally was marred by disruptions several times.
Aam Aadmi Party caps and Arvind Kejriwal’s posters dotted the streets from Janpath Metro station. As the temperature shot up on Wednesday afternoon, the crowd gathered momentum as the AAP leader began their address one after another. Various placards and slogans were in full swing to keep the enthusiasm going. Minutes after the rally started, a scuffle broke out between rally supporters and the Delhi police over the entry into the venue. The entry was restricted from Jantar Mantar area with definite instructions to lead the way to the venue via Parliament Street.
As the crowd was enthused in the spirit of right of farmers, the rally that was focused on land Acquisition ordinance was marred by the sudden suicide by a Rajasthan-based farmer that took place around 2 pm in the vicinity of Aam Aadmi’s CM Arvind Kejriwal, much to the shock of everyone. Huge crowd gathered as all eyes shifting to the man standing on the tree clad in a dhoti and turban. Even as the crowd could not asses that the man was, he suddenly screamed that he will commit suicide if his demands were not met with.
As the man was taken to RMl hospital, the crowd incessantly cheered “Humari Maangein Poori Karo”, “We Want Justice” as CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh and Ashish Khetan addressed the public. With heavy security deployed outside, the rally managed to pull a meaty crowd of about 4,000 people from the capital and outside. The area was heavily barricaded with AAP volunteers.