Monday, April 14, 2014

AAP demands EC's immediate intervention

  AAP demands EC's immediate intervention

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today
demanded Election Commission's "immediate intervention" to
ensure free and fair elections after two of its candidates
were attacked in two seperate incidents in Jharkhand and
Bihar.
A statement released by the party said AAP candidate from
Nalanda parliamentary constituency in Bihar, Pranav Prakash
was allegedly attacked and brutally beaten up on Sunday night.
"He was in Udarfu village under Bind police station,
(Asthava vidhan sabha) of Nalanda district. A group of 20-30
goons, armed with rods, pistols and other weapons, attacked
the car in which he was travelling, broke the windows of his
car, dragged him into a ditch and brutally beat him, till he
fell unconscious", the statement said.
"It is shocking and highly regrettable that when the EC
officials/observers in Nalanda district were contacted, they
refused to come and informed the AAP volunteers that they
would meet them in the morning," it said.
In the second incident, the AAP candidate from Khunti
parliamentary constituency of Jharkhand and well-known adivasi
activist Dayamani Barla and her campaign team are being
regularly threatened, the party alleged.
"On April 7, the vehicle carrying the AAP supporters
towards Arki block was stopped at Birbanki by some armed
militants at 3 PM. They took away the car keys and mobile
phones of all members, who however, managed to escape on foot
at 7 PM and walked through the jungle all night to reach
Khunti back only the next morning.
"The next incident took place on April 9, when some AAP
supporters were stopped at Bikwadag in Karra block by six
armed men. One of them said that he was the zonal commander of
extremist outfit People�s Liberation Front of India (PLFI),
which will not allow any campaigning for the AAP, and anybody
doing so would be killed," the statement added.
AAP alleged that PLFI has made it clear that it will only
allow  the campaign of Jharkhand Party's candidate Anosh Ekka.
"These incidents show that vested interests are trying to
discourage the presence of AAP in the electoral arena and
it is for the EC to ensure that candidates are allowed to
campaign without any fear and people are allowed to
participate in the democratic process without any undue
influence," the statement added

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