Tajinder Bagga BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga brought back to Delhi after arrest by Punjab Police
New Delhi/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga's arrest on Friday morning from his home in Delhi by Punjab Police set off a dramatic showdown involving two parties and police forces across three states.
The entire episode lasted hours, Bagga was first taken away by the Punjab police at 5 am.
He was arrested for "provocative statements, promoting religious enmity and criminal intimidation" over his tweets against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
On their way to Mohali, the team was stopped by Haryana cops after the Delhi police registered a kidnapping case based on a complaint by Bagga's father.
The Haryana police surrounded the Punjab police car carrying Bagga and escorted them off the highway to a police station in Kurukshetra.
The Punjab cops were detained. Meanwhile, the Punjab and Haryana High Court turned down AAP-ruled Punjab's demand that Bagga remains in Haryana instead of being handed over to Delhi cops.
With a search warrant, a team of Delhi police reached Kurukshetra and "rescued" Bagga, who flashed a victory sign as he changed cars.
The Delhi police then brought Bagga back to the national capital.
Earlier scores of members, leaders of BJP led by its Delhi chief Adesh Gupta, holding banners and placards, shouted slogans against the Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of misusing the government machinery in Punjab, where his party is in power.
"The action taken against Tajinder Singh Bagga was very shameful. Punjab police was involved in hooliganism," Gupta said.
Attacking the AAP, he further said, “Sending 50-60 Punjab Police personnel to the house of a young BJP leader, forcibly lifting him up and getting his elderly father beaten up is proof of the dictatorial mindset of Arvind Kejriwal.”
"By misusing Punjab police to settle political scores, CM Bhagwant Mann is betraying people's mandate. CM Arvind Kejriwal's tughlaq ways would harm interests of Punjabis as they will see their state's resources being misused to meet political ends," BJP MLA from Rohini Vijender Gupta tweeted.
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