Kapil Mishra appointed Delhi BJP vice-president
A former minister in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP Government in Delhi, Kapil Mishra joined the BJP after being disqualified as an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA in 2019.
A former minister in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP Government in Delhi, Kapil Mishra joined the BJP after being disqualified as an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA in 2019.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Delhi High Court to expeditiously decide, preferably within three months, a plea seeking registration of FIR against BJP leaders
The accusations made were extremely offensive which left me completely distressed, Jain added.
Interestingly, the slogan bears an uncanny resemblance to JNU protest slogans that earlier made headlines.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation had also condemned the riots which rocked the northeast Delhi after hate speeches against Muslims were made by BJP leaders like Kapil Mishra.
The march was organised by the Delhi Peace Forum, an NGO, against the communal violence that claimed several lives in northeast Delhi.
As of now, at least 42 people have lost their lives and more than 350 are injured as armed mobs rampaged in areas like Jaffrabad, Maujpur and Gokulpuri since Sunday and continued till Tuesday, looting and burning buildings and attacking the residents.
A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Talwant Singh took on record the assurance by special commissioner Praveer Ranjan that he will sit with the police commissioner today itself and view all video clips and take a conscious decision on lodging of FIRs.
The trouble started on Sunday afternoon when local BJP leader Kapil Mishra decided to hold a rally in favour of the law. At the rally, the BJP leader gave an “ultimatum” to the Delhi police to clear the roads at Chand Bagh and Jaffrabad or else, he said, they would have to hit the streets.
The court also expressed concern over the discovery of the body of an Intelligence Bureau officer in the violence-hit northeast Delhi and termed it as 'unfortunate'.
