Poster war rages between AAP, BJP govt in Uttarakhand

Aggrieved over filing of a case against its party worker and subsequent removal of posters, hoardings, display boards put up by the Aam Aadmi Party across Haridwar, AAP activists are staging protests and sit-in against the action, which they alleged is mere political vendetta Dehradun: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial candidate for Uttarakhand elections, retired Col. Ajay Kothiyal during ‘Devbhoomi Sankalp Yatra’, in Dehradun, on Aug 17, 2021. A case was registered on Monday at the city police station under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act on the complaint of Assistant Town Commissioner Municipal Commissioner Mahendra Kumar Yadav against AAP volunteers for putting up hoardings and banners without permission on government property. Later, police arrested AAP auto cell district president Rakesh Kumar who accepted that without permission from concerned authorities, he had put up posters and banners of the party within the municipal limits. Aggrieved by this action, AAP activists led by women wing state vice president Hema Bhandari have been staging sit-in agitation, gherao the city police station and carrying out protest marches across the city.