Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to “kill” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the party’s defeat in the recently held Punjab Assembly Elections. Sisodia made the comments during a press conference hours after the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), which is the youth wing of the BJP, protested at Kejriwal’s residence, allegedly damaging CCTV cameras and barriers.

“As it could not defeat Arvind Kejriwal in the Punjab polls, the BJP now wants to kill him (hatya karna chahta hai). Today’s attack on the chief minister’s house shows that the BJP, with the help of police, wants to kill Kejriwal. We will lodge a formal complaint against this,” Sisodia alleged during a press conference, adding that the “life-threatening attack” on Kejriwal was “properly planned.”

They will lodge a formal complaint in this connection with the incident, he added. 

On Wednesday morning, activists of the BJYM, led by its president Tejasvi Surya, staged a protest near Kejriwal’s residence in the national capital, demanding an apology from him for allegedly mocking Kashmiri Pandits. 

Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain alleged that the “attack by the BJP people took place in the presence of Delhi Police personnel during which CCTV cameras and barriers were broken.”

BJYM national Secretary Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga said the workers and leaders of the organisation did not resort to vandalism during the protest. 

“We were stopped by the police and around 20-25 of our members and leaders, including Tejasvi Surya, were detained and taken to a police station. They were later released,” Bagga told PTI.

For those unversed, both the parties have been engaged in a war of words over ‘The Kashmir Files‘ movie, with the Delhi CM recently attacking the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Delhi Assembly over the issue.