New Delhi: Hours after a Congress MLA from Okhla accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of going back on the AAP's promise to reopen the Batla encounter case and ignoring the plight of the Muslim victims, the party issued a statement.
Asif Mohammad Khan had raised his voice shouting slogans after Kejriwal's comments on the Batla house encounter case during a press conference. "Kejriwal has betrayed the people of Delhi. They had said in their manifesto that if they come to power they will order judicial probe in the Batla House fake encounter. Now he is denying," the Congress MLA had said.
However, the Chief Minister in turn refused to answer the MLA and instead walked out of the press conference.
Here is the full statement of AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) strongly condemns the nefarious attempts by a Congress MLA to disrupt the press conference of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday.
MLA Asif Mohammad Khan inappropriately barged into a press briefing at the Delhi Secretariat and indulged in highly objectionable behaviour, which is totally unbecoming of an elected representative.
He raised the issue of Batla House encounter and the AAP would like to set the record straight. This encounter had taken place on 19 September 2008, when there were Congress governments in Delhi as well as at the Centre.
The AAP had not come into existence till then, but it was noted lawyer and human rights activist, Prashant Bhushan (now a national executive member of the AAP) who had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking an independent investigation into this encounter.
The High Court asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to look into the matter. The NHRC accepted the probe report of the Delhi Police Crime Branch. This was again challenged by Mr Bhushan in the Supreme Court.
A three judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the then Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan dismissed the petition seeking an independent/judicial inquiry into the encounter.
The Supreme Court ruled that no further probes were required in this matter.
Mr Asif has tried to spread a lot of falsehood today. It is important to rebut these false allegations. Without reading the AAP manifesto, he has given statements that it promises a probe into this encounter. There is no such mention in the AAP manifesto.
Mr Asif needs to answer the question as to why he joined the Congress Party in August 2013 after having won the 2008 assembly election on the RJD ticket, despite the fact that Congress governments of Delhi and even the centre had termed the encounter as genuine in the High Court and the Supreme Court.
It is really beyond reasonable understanding that he chose to contest on the ticket of a party which supported the encounter and opposed any attempt to get it probed and is seeking answers from a government which believes in justice for all and discrimination against none.
Before questioniong others, Mr Asif should spell out the stand of the party to which he belongs, on this issue.
The AAP makes it clear that it stands committed for justice to all sections of the society and is firmly against implication of innocents in false cases, irrespective of their religion, region or caste.
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