Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 22: Delhi police have filed 36 cases and arrested six people after thousands of posters seeking the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were found in the national capital.
As per information, an order for one lakh such posters was given to two printing presses. In a massive operation on Tuesday, police removed nearly 2,000 posters from several places in Delhi. Most of these posters had the slogan ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’.
Police said the arrests were made for defacing public property and under the law that requires posters to have the name of the printing press. The police further said that they registered 138 FIRs on Tuesday, out of which 36 were for anti-Modi posters.
Police have seized over 2,000 posters, which were allegedly being delivered to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office. Cops found the posters when they intercepted a van in the IP Estate area in Central Delhi. The driver told police that he was instructed to deliver the posters to AAP headquarters.
Meanwhile, taking to Twitter, Aam Aadmi Party questioned the FIRs and asked what was objectionable in the posters. The party also said that this was the ‘peak of Modi government’s dictatorship’.
मोदी सरकार की तानाशाही चरम पर है‼️
इस Poster में ऐसा क्या आपत्तिजनक है जो इसे लगाने पर मोदी जी ने 100 F.I.R. कर दी?
PM Modi, आपको शायद पता नहीं पर भारत एक लोकतांत्रिक देश है।
एक पोस्टर से इतना डर! क्यों? pic.twitter.com/RLseE9Djfq
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) March 22, 2023
The arrested printing press owners said that they had been given the order to print 50,000 posters of ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’. The owners have been arrested as the posters did not have the name of the printing press.
The arrests have become the latest flashpoint between the Centre and AAP. The Bharatiya Janata Party accused the AAP of not following the law while putting up the posters. On the other hand, the Aam Aadmi Party announced a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Thursday to demand the ouster of PM Modi.
