Alleging a “conspiracy” by the Congress and the Akali Dal to hurt Sikh sentiments, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to the Delhi top cop on Friday to register a criminal case against a publication for portraying him as a ‘Nihang Sikh’ on its cover page.
In his letter to Police Commissioner Alok Verma, the CM said that some people from Punjab told him that their sentiments got hurt by the photo of him being portrayed as sword-wielding Nihang on the cover page of a publication.
“The publication has hurt sentiments of the Sikh community by putting this picture on its cover page without my knowledge and hence, I am writing to you to register a criminal case against it under appropriate Sections of IPC… I doubt that apart from the publication, my political rivals — the Akali Dal and Congress — are also involved in this conspiracy... Delhi Police should take this matter seriously,” Kejriwal said in the letter.