Gujarat Police on Friday arrested eight people for putting up objectionable posters against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in different areas of Ahmedabad. The accused put up ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao’ posters, a day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched a nationwide campaign against PM Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ahmedabad Police registered a case against the accused and said the posters were put up in the city in an unauthorized manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the arrest, Gujarat AAP chief Isudan Gadhvi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of dictatorship and claimed that the arrests are a sign that the party is scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gadhvi said, Look at the dictatorship of BJP! Aam Aadmi Party workers in Gujarat have been jailed under various sections of the IPC in connection with the posters of Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao! If this is not fear of Modi and the BJP, then what else? Try as hard as you want! Aam Aadmi Party workers will fight, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Also<\/strong>: Karnataka High Court disqualifies JD(S) MLA for electoral malpractice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This comes a week after thousands of posters were put on the walls in the national capital targetting PM Modi. This created a massive uproar in the capital which led to the arrest of six people. Not only, this, the police also registered 49 FIRs in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Delhi Police stated that the posters were made for vandalizing government property. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal responded to the arrests and claimed that even the British did not arrest anyone who displayed anti-British posters during the independence movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said no FIRs or action were taken by the Britishers against freedom fighters who used to put up posters against them. Bhagat Singh had pasted a lot of posters during the British rule, and not a single FIR was lodged against him, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The AAP’s Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao campaign was launched in 11 languages across the country. Besides English, Hindi and Urdu, posters have been released in Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n