Days before Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi’s retirement, the AAP has demanded that he be sacked and charged that his loyalty was not to the police force, but to the RSS. AAP’s Delhi unit secretary Saurabh Bharadwaj said Bassi, who has had frequent run-ins with the Delhi Government, should not be given a “respectable exit” and cited his stint as the city police chief which will end this month.
“BS Bassi has often said that he owed loyalty towards the khaki, but inaction in the JNU case where journalists and students were attacked shows that he owed his loyalty not the unifrom, but khaki pants,” AAP’s Delhi unit convenor Dilip Pandey said, in a veiled reference to RSS. The Commissioner, who is set to retire on February 29, has been facing intense flak for Delhi Police’s alleged mishandling of the JNU row.