A stone was allegedly hurled at Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal at a rally in South Delhi, but the former Delhi Chief Minister escaped unhurt.
The episode did, however, elicit allegations of having been stage-managed by the opposition even as the AAP blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the attack with the former terming the incident ‘shameful’ and the latter claiming it was part of the AAP’s ‘old, electoral tactics’.
Mr. Kejriwal was addressing a rally at Tigri , which falls under the Deoli Assembly constituency, when a man, in his early-20s, was stopped by AAP activists, as he was hurling the stone at the dais .
The stone fell short of Mr. Kejriwal.
One person threw a stone at me in deoli jansabha today. BJP so scared? Resorting to violence? I wish well for the boy who did it.
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) >December 27, 2014
Later, reacting to the incident, Mr Kejriwal tweeted: “One person threw a stone at me at Deoli jansabha today. BJP so scared? Resorting to violence? I wish well for the boy who did it.”
Speaking to a TV news agency, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay, however, termed it a habitual poll gimmick of the AAP.
