AMRITSAR: Former bureaucrat and BJP leader Jagmohan Singh Raju has sought registration of an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly giving hate speech against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Raju, in a letter written to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Mohali on Wednesday, a copy of which was released to the media, alleged that he had already submitted a complaint by e-mail on May 9, 2022, to the SHO police station SAS Nagar, Mohali seeking registration of FIR and initiation of action against Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly giving a hate speech against Narendra Modi and allegedly instigating and provoking the general public.
'Though it is more than two months since this complaint was filed, the concerned police station has not registered an FIR in the matter", Raju alleged.
Notably, former senior Tamil Nadu IAS officer Jagmohan Singh Raju has spent 35 years of his service outside Punjab. In the last assembly elections, BJP had fielded Raju from the Amritsar East assembly constituency to take on heavyweights like former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu and former Akali minister Bikram Singh Majithia, also known as Majhae-da-Jarnail.
However, Raju had lost the assembly elections to AAP’s Jeevan Jot Kaur who was polled 39,679 votes as against Raju who received only 7,286 votes.
"Merely because the accused in the complaint is a powerful person whose political party is In power in Punjab does not imply that the police shall not abide by the mandate of law," writes Raju to the Mohali police chief.
