Kejriwal Ink Attack: What is the Aam Aadmi Sena All About?
Aam Aadmi Sena, the outfit responsible for ink attack on Kejriwal has a sketchy past.
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A woman, alleging a “CNG scam” in the AAP government, threw ink at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday at a public gathering held to mark the “success” of the odd-even traffic restriction scheme but missed him.
The woman, Bhavana Arora, belongs to Aam Aadmi Sena, which claims to be a splinter group of the Aam Aadmi Party, created by members who were apparently disillusioned by AAP’s leadership.
Interestingly, the group has been accused of being backed by the BJP.
The group, however, has found itself being mentioned in the headlines for protesting against all the main parties on various issues.
In March 2014, in one of the first public protests, AAS supporters protested against the AAP ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, alleging that Kejriwal made false promises.
In May 2014, Aam Aadmi Sena was in the news for protesting against Kejriwal for allegedly defamatory remarks against union minister Nitin Gadkari.
In June 2014, they hit the streets protesting against a fringe group, Hindu Rashtra Sena, for the murder of a Muslim youth in Pune.
In June, 2014, AAS threatened to snap power supplies to both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s houses.
AAS has also trained its guns against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in October 2014 over the black money issue.
AAS supporters challenged AAP once again in April 2015, blaming Arvind Kejriwal for the death of a farmer, Gajendra Singh, at the AAP rally in Delhi.
The next month they were seen protesting against BJP on the issue of 39 missing Indians in Iraq.
Throughout the time it has existed, the group has kept itself in the news with antics like this.