BJP and AAP honking for removal of Kejriwal’s photo from I-Day ad

The BJP and AAP on Thursday sparred over the removal of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s photo from an Independence Day advertisement by the Delhi government.

Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva claimed that people are “shocked” to see the double faces of Kejriwal government ministers as they want the chief minister’s photo in the Independence Day ad, but they themselves omit it from the culture department’s ad.

The AAP hit back at the BJP, accusing it of being run by a “petty mentality” and is unsure of Kejriwal’s strong bond with the people of Delhi.

”Their insecurity is evident in the shameful act of removing his photo from the Independence Day posters,” AAP said in a statement.

Information and Publicity Minister Atishi on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to senior officers of the department for publishing the advertisement without the photograph of the Delhi Chief Minister without her approval.

Directorate of Information and Publicity (DIP) officers objected to Kejriwal’s photo in the ad on the grounds that he was currently in judicial custody.

“Minister Atishi created a controversy over an Independence Day ad wanting to run the ad with the jailed CM Kejriwal’s photo, but officials refused to air it as it would have gone against the protocol and dignity of Independence Day,” Sachdeva said .

He alleged that while Atishi had created the “controversy”, her cabinet colleague Saurabh Bhardwaj had himself put up hundreds of hoardings for a culture department function without the chief minister’s photo.

AAP stated that the Delhi Chief Minister is the head of the democratically elected government and his photograph “embodies the values ​​of democracy and independence”.

BJP’s days in the country are numbered and people have rejected its “negative and regressive” politics, AAP said.

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