Tajinder Bagga arrest: BJP stages protest

Scores of members, leaders of BJP led by its Delhi chief Adesh Gupta, holding banners and placards, shouted slogans against the Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of misusing the government machinery in Punjab, where his party is in power.

"The action taken against Tajinder Singh Bagga was very shameful. Punjab police was involved in hooliganism," Gupta said.

Attacking the AAP, he further said, “Sending 50-60 Punjab Police personnel to the house of a young BJP leader, forcibly lifting him up and getting his elderly father beaten up is proof of the dictatorial mindset of Arvind Kejriwal.”

"By misusing Punjab police to settle political scores, CM Bhagwant Mann is betraying people's mandate. CM Arvind Kejriwal's tughlaq ways would harm interests of Punjabis as they will see their state's resources being misused to meet political ends," BJP MLA from Rohini Vijender Gupta tweeted.

Earlier in the day, a complaint was lodged with Delhi police alleging that a Punjab police team thrashed Bagga's father when they came to arrest the BJP leader from his residence in the national capital.

The AAP, however, refuted the charges of “vendetta” politics over the arrest of BJP leader and said Punjab police has sent several notices to him to join the investigation in connection with a case but he refused.