Controversy broke out during a roadshow of Amit Shah in Delhi today after some people resorted to sloganeering like, 'Desh ke Gaddaron ko, goli maaro... ( Kill enemies of the nation)', and 'Hum De Ke Rahein Gein Azadi'( We will give you freedom).

However, the party has distanced itself from such sloganeering. The party president in Delhi, Manoj Tiwari said that neither he or BJP supports such remarks. He also asserted that BJP was contesting elections along the lines of developmental issues like health, water, and cleanliness of Yamuna.

The controversial sloganeering took place when Amit Shah along with Manoj Tiwari was doing a roadshow in support of the local BJP candidate, Ajay Mahawat for Ghonda Assembly seat.

Addressing the gathering on the question of CAA, Manoj Tiwari said, "The entire country has come out in support of CAA and that the act was unnecessarily opposed by the protesters."

Youth beaten up for raising anti-CAA chants

Meanwhile, a youth, among a small group who raised slogans against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's poll rally here on Sunday, was beaten up by people at the rally.



Shah, who was present at that time, directed his security to take the youth to safety.



As the Home Minister was addressing the rally in Babarpur Assembly constituency for the February 8 Delhi Assembly elections, four-five youths began shouting slogans demanding the rollback of the act. People seized hold of one of the youth and beat him up before Shah's intervention.

Shah blames Rahul Gandhi, Kejriwal for inciting people

In his speech, Amit Shah targeted both the city's ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought in the CAA but "Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal and company were opposing it".



"They (the opposition) incited and misled the people, buses were burnt, cars were burnt and if these people come back, then Delhi will not be secure," he alleged.



Appealing to the people to vote for the BJP, he said his party's victory would ensure Delhi remains secure and incidents like the Shaheen Bagh protests are curbed.



He said that the BJP and Modi would transform the city, and urged people not to go by the "false promises" of others.

(inputs from agencies)



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