Ahmedabad (Gujarat): As many as eight individuals have been arrested for allegedly placing up “objectionable slogans” towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi in public locations and authorities properties in Gujarat`s Ahmedabad, police stated on Friday. The Ahmedabad crime department stated that slogans like “Modi Hatao Desh Bachao” have been put up in varied elements metropolis on March 30 in an “unauthorized manner”.The police stated that in the course of the investigation of the stated incidents, eight individuals have been arrested.
Those arrested have been recognized as Natwarbhai Popatbhai, Jatinbhai Chandrakantbhai Patel, Kuldeep Sharadkumar Bhatt, Bipin Ravindrabhai Sharma, Ajay Sureshbhai Chauhan, Arvind Gorjibhai Chauhan, Jivanbhai Vasubhai Maheshwari, and Paresh Vasudevbhai Tulsiya.
Reacting to the incident, Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party president Isudan Gadhvi on Thursday stated that the arrested staff have been the celebration staff and alleged that the police motion reveals that the BJP is scared.
“Look at the dictatorship of BJP! Aam Aadmi Party workers in Gujarat have been jailed under various sections of the IPC in connection with the posters of Modi hatao desh bachao! If this is not fear of Modi and BJP, then what else? Try as hard as you want! Aam Aadmi Party workers will fight,” Gadhvi tweeted.
भाजपा की तानाशाही देखो ! मोदी हटाओ देश बचाओ के पोस्टर मामले में गुजरात में आम आदमी पार्टी के कार्यकताओं पे आईपीसी की विविध धाराए लगा कर जेल में बंध कर दिया है !ये मोदी और भाजपा का डर नहीं है तो और क्या है ? चाहे जितना भी ज़ोर लगा लो ! आम आदमी पार्टी के कार्यकर्ता लड़ेंगे !
— Isudan Gadhvi (@isudan_gadhvi) March 30, 2023
Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched a nationwide poster marketing campaign with slogans like “Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao” in 22 states, stated AAP`s state convener Gopal Rai on Thursday.
Gopal Rai additionally alleged at a press convention that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is engaged in ending the nation’s democratic techniques as an alternative of fixing the education-health system and eradicating unemployment.
Posters in Hindi, English, and all different regional languages are being put up in 22 states throughout the nation. “This campaign aims at sending the message across the nation about how PM Modi failed in fulfilling his promise to farmers, took away the rights of labourers, suppressed students in universities. PM Narendra Modi is engaged in ending the country`s democratic systems,” he alleged.
Rai stated that from April 10, comparable posters could be put up at universities throughout the nation to make college students conscious of the marketing campaign. Earlier, on March 23, AAP held a giant public assembly at Jantar Mantar beneath the slogan `Modi Hatao Desh Bachao`, which was addressed by AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann.