Ahmedabad: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal yesterday accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of being “anti-farmer” and “anti-common man” after police detained him briefly. The former Delhi chief minister hit out at the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate after his 30-minute detention at a police station in Radhanpur in north Gujarat. The incident took place just hours after he began a four-day tour of Gujarat to test Modi’s claims that the state was a model of development. “There is no development here. Modi is anti-farmer, Modi is completely anti-common man. The only people who have benefitted in Gujarat are industrialists.”
Meanwhile, protests by AAP workers outside the BJP office in New Delhi against Kejriwal’s detention snowballed into a clash when BJP activists allegedly pelted stones at them and the protesters retaliated. The workers of both the parties pelted stones at each other after the AAP’s “peaceful” protest turned ugly. While both sides hurled chairs and sticks at each other, police intervened, using water cannons to disperse the crowd. Angry AAP workers vandalised the BJP hoardings. IANS
