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New Delhi, April 29, 2014 | UPDATED 14:33 IST
While AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal
said BJP men beat up two of his supporters at a ghat in Varanasi on
Monday, an alterative account is doing the rounds on Twitter.
According to tweets by journalist Hashmi Shams Tabreed (@hstabreed), it seems the fight, in which two AAP volunteers wee injured, began after they were seen "drinking beer on Assi Ghat and urinating into the Ganga".
"Word is that AAP folks were engaged in a fight yesterday with people who objected to their drinking beer at Assi ghat & Urinating in Ganga.
"Yesterday's scuffle is hurting AAP more. With AAP campaign entirely driven by outsiders, they don't realize Ganga is an emotional issue here.
"I've
talked to a lot of people today, autodrivers, shopkeepers, govt.
servants and most sounded pretty upset with AAP disrespecting ganga,"
Tabreed said in a series of tweets.
This claim is diametrically opposite to the injured AAP supporters' version, who said they were attacked without provocation while they were at a shop to drink water.
"We were returning from campaigning and we had stopped at a shop to drink water. Generally on seeing AAP caps, people came to talks to us. One of the group there was of the BJP and it began shouting 'Modi, Modi'. When they saw we could be influencing people, they asked us to go. Then one of them came and began hitting us," said Nandan Mishra, one of the two injured AAP supporters.
Ankit Lal, who too was injured, said: "It seemed they were from the BJP. They were wearing BJP caps. It all began with an argument. They said you are absconders; you have come to defend an absconder. We asked them to sit down and discuss. They regrouped and came back and four-five of them manhandled us. Nandan was hit on the nose and I was hit on the head."
Reacting to the attack, Kejriwal, who is contesting from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat against the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, blamed the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to spread fear and keep AAP supporters away on election day.
"People are scared that they would be attacked on voting day," he said at a press conference.
He also demanded deployment of central forces on polling day in the constituency on May 12.
He went on to claim that attack on the AAP supporters was orchestrated by the BJP. "Earlier, only I was being attacked. But now even common people are being attacked," he said.
A vast majority of university and college students from Delhi are in Varanasi, campaigning for Kejriwal.
Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hashmi-shams-tabreed-tweets-aap-workers-drinking-beer-aap-supporters-urinating-in-ganga-varanasi/1/358156.html
Ankit Lal, one of the AAP workers who was allegedly attacked by BJP supporters in Varanasi, on Monday.
According to tweets by journalist Hashmi Shams Tabreed (@hstabreed), it seems the fight, in which two AAP volunteers wee injured, began after they were seen "drinking beer on Assi Ghat and urinating into the Ganga".
"Word is that AAP folks were engaged in a fight yesterday with people who objected to their drinking beer at Assi ghat & Urinating in Ganga.
"Yesterday's scuffle is hurting AAP more. With AAP campaign entirely driven by outsiders, they don't realize Ganga is an emotional issue here.
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal.
This claim is diametrically opposite to the injured AAP supporters' version, who said they were attacked without provocation while they were at a shop to drink water.
"We were returning from campaigning and we had stopped at a shop to drink water. Generally on seeing AAP caps, people came to talks to us. One of the group there was of the BJP and it began shouting 'Modi, Modi'. When they saw we could be influencing people, they asked us to go. Then one of them came and began hitting us," said Nandan Mishra, one of the two injured AAP supporters.
Ankit Lal, who too was injured, said: "It seemed they were from the BJP. They were wearing BJP caps. It all began with an argument. They said you are absconders; you have come to defend an absconder. We asked them to sit down and discuss. They regrouped and came back and four-five of them manhandled us. Nandan was hit on the nose and I was hit on the head."
Reacting to the attack, Kejriwal, who is contesting from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat against the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, blamed the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to spread fear and keep AAP supporters away on election day.
"People are scared that they would be attacked on voting day," he said at a press conference.
He also demanded deployment of central forces on polling day in the constituency on May 12.
Word is that AAP folks were engaged in a fight yesterday with people who objected to their drinking beer at Assi ghat & Urinating in Ganga
— Hashmi Shams Tabreed (@hstabreed) April 29, 2014
He went on to claim that attack on the AAP supporters was orchestrated by the BJP. "Earlier, only I was being attacked. But now even common people are being attacked," he said.
A vast majority of university and college students from Delhi are in Varanasi, campaigning for Kejriwal.
Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hashmi-shams-tabreed-tweets-aap-workers-drinking-beer-aap-supporters-urinating-in-ganga-varanasi/1/358156.html
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