The BJP-AAP ‘poster war’ continues in Delhi as the saffron party-sponsored posters calling for the removal of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were seen plastered in parts of the national capital on Thursday, days after similar posters were posted by “anonymous” persons targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The anti-Kejriwal posters with the slogan ‘Arvind Kejriwal ko hatao, Dilli Bachao (Remove Arvind Kejriwal, Save Delhi’ with a header calling the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Corrupt, Dishonest and Dictator—were reported seen pasted in Delhi this morning, two days after the Delhi Police’s crackdown on anti-Modi posters which read ‘Modi hatao, desh bachao (remove Modi, save the country.’

The anti-Kejriwal posters were allegedly put up by BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa.

The posters calling for the removal of PM Modi to “save the country” were removed during a large-scale crackdown by the Police on Tuesday, which also led to the arrest of six accused, including two printing press owners.

The arrested printing press owners allegedly told the police that they had received an order to print 50,000 “Modi hatao, desh bachao” posters.

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Police said the arrests were made for defacing public property and under the law, the posters were required to carry the name of the printing press. They said that only 36 cases out of 138 filed were for the anti-Modi posters.

According to the Delhi Police, they reportedly seized around 2,000 posters that were on their way to being delivered in a van to the AAP office.

However, Delhi CM Kejriwal trashed the police version of the arrests and claimed that the Prime Minister is “scared” and “insecure.”

Later, in a tweet, the Kejriwal-led AAP termed the police action as the “peak of Modi government’s dictatorship” as asked what was objectionable in the posters. AAP has also announced a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar today to demand the removal of PM Modi.

The BJP accused the AAP of violating the law by putting up such posters, notably, however, the former never acknowledged the act.

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The weatherman has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds and thunderstorms in the Delhi-NCR region today. Hailstorms are also likely.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for the national capital and its adjoining areas, including Noida and Gurugram, even as moderate-heavy showers accompanied by thunderstorms are predicted in several cities in the country, especially in Northwest and Eastern India.

According to the regional meteorological centre, cloudy skies, thunderstorms accompanied by light to moderate showers are predicted in Delhi over the course of next seven days. The national capital city and its adjoining areas will also likely experience gusty winds and hailstorms at some places.

According to the seven-day forecast, maximum temperatures during this spell are likely to remain around a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperatures can dip as low as 16 degrees during night hours.

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The pleasant weather is likely to last for the entire week in Delhi and surrounding areas even as the weatherman has predicted rain along with hailstorms till Monday evening.

On Sunday, rains and hailstorms lashed parts of Delhi-NCR resulting in a drop in the mercury as the maximum temperature dipped three degrees below the season’s average to around 28 degrees Celsius, according to the IMD.

A PTI report quoting IMD regional forecasting centre chief Kuldeep Srivastava said that an active western disturbance over northwest India is causing rain in the region and hailstorms in some areas.

Srivastava said that another western disturbance will start affecting the region (from) Sunday while cloudy skies and on-and-off rain will continue over northwest India till March 21.

He said that precipitation is predicted to peak on March 20 and will result in a drop in mercury, adding that a hailstorm is forecasted in parts of northwest India, including Delhi-NCR, on Monday.

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A young man, identified as 23-year-old Rahul, was found hanging from a ceiling inside a hotel room at Devli road, Delhi Police said on Tuesday.

According to an official statement issued by the police, Neb Sarai Police Station received a PCR call from a hotel at Devli Road on the intervening night of March 12 and 13 and a police team was dispatched to the spot who found the victim hanging from the ceiling fan of a room.

The deceased was identified as Rahul, a resident of Dakshinpuri Extension, Pushpa Bahawan, they said, adding that the body of the victim was inspected by the Crime team and later sent to mortuary at AIIMS Delhi for postmortem proceeding under section 174 of the CrPC.

An official said that on March 11, the deceased had stayed at the hotel along with another person, identified as Sourav, and had checked out on the morning of March 12. However, the deceased once again checked into the hotel in the evening at around 5 pm on the same day.

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During initial investigation, police while scanning the security camera footage of the hotel, found a man dressed in Delhi Police uniform entering the hotel and it was later revealed that the man had introduced himself as Constable Nabab, posted in Jyoti Nagar police station, the official said, adding that the impersonator had failed to produce an identity card upon being asked to do so.

He said that on being enquired, the OYO hotel staff revealed that a policeman was staying with a woman at the hotel’s room no 206. On checking, the man—identified as Nabab Singh of Ashok Nagar, Mandoli—and a woman were found and questioned.

The official further said that the man who was donning a Delhi Police uniform, introduced himself as Constable Nabab posted in Jyoti Nagar police station. However, the impersonator failed to produce any identity card or any other relevant documents and later was revealed to be impersonating as a constable of Delhi Police but was actually a Civil Defence volunteer of Shahdara District.

A case of impersonation has been registered against him and further investigation is underway.

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