Water cannons were deployed to remove the gathering during the BJP counter-protest

New Delhi: BJP members who staged a march on Tuesday calling for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to resign were dispersed by Delhi Police using water cannons. Detained were around fifty-seven protestors, among them Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva. Police refused to provide permission for the march, citing the implementation of CrPC Section 144, which forbids public gatherings in the city.

Later in the day, those who had been held were freed.
The protestors, who numbered around 700, started their ITO march from Feroz Shah Kotla to the Delhi Secretariat at 1:30 p.m. The BJP demonstrators started to assemble at the local metro station early in the morning, waving banners and yelling signs calling for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to step down.
Sachdeva said in front of the assembly that the Arvind Kejriwal administration was now out of legality. Sachdeva said that Kejriwal’s insistence on serving as chief minister while incarcerated “not only violates ethical politics, but also shows that he considers government and party his personal fiefdom.” “Kejriwal is not the first prominent politician in power to be detained on suspicion of corruption. The chief minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, was arrested recently on suspicion of corruption; the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalitha, was detained before. Both of them tendered their resignations.
Sachdeva further mentioned how the late Madan Lal Khurana resigned from his position as chief minister of Delhi when his name surfaced in the well-known hawala case.
The Member of Parliament for North East Delhi, Manoj Tiwari, said that Kejriwal was plundering Delhi by assuming no leadership role in any government agency and thus evading accountability. “There are rumours that Kejriwal wrote from behind bars, emphasising the need to address the water and sanitation issues facing the city. Thus, he conceded that not much has been accomplished during the nine years of AAP leadership. Delhi would never pardon a chief minister who often lied to the people, he said.
Subsequently, the gathering demonstrators organised a march towards the Central Secretariat. Police quickly built barriers and increased security in the area, citing Section 144 CrPC, which forbade public assembly. Anti-riot vehicles and central reserve police personnel were stationed on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg.
The demonstrators tried to break through the barriers as emotions rose, so police used water cannons to disperse the crowd. The BJP workers were violently removed, but they did not stop yelling slogans. After that, police started holding people and transporting them away on buses.
“Enough force was deployed and barricades were installed to stop the protesters,” a police officer said. The Delhi Secretariat and ITO also increased their security. Sachdeva was one of the fifty-seven people brought to the Kamla Market police station.