Candidate Alka Lamba’s Slap Starts Congress-AAP Fight At Polling Station

New Delhi:

A struggle between Congress and Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration employees broke out outside a polling booth in north Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tilla lately after the Congress’s Alka Lamba attempted to slap an AAP employee.

In a cellular video, a person who reportedly belongs to the celebration led by way of Arvind Kejriwal is heard shouting at Ms Lamba, who unexpectedly lunges along with her proper hand raised prime to slap him. The person strikes again and Ms Lamba misses her goal.

Inside of seconds, the person is escorted away by way of a hoop of policemen. On the other hand, Congress employees chase and encompass the policemen. Ms Lamba and a few Congress employees are observed attempting frantically to succeed in the person, who remains to be shielded by way of the policemen.

“Once I got here out of the polling sales space, I noticed the son of an AAP candidate arguing with the police over coming into the sales space. At that second, an AAP employee, Harmesh, used abusive language towards me. I thank the police for arresting him right away,” Ms Lamba stated, information company ANI reported.

Ms Lamba, a former MLA of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration or AAP from Chandni Chowk, fell out from the celebration after disagreements with Mr Kejriwal on celebration issues collected to some degree that they needed to pass separate tactics.

She joined the Congress in October ultimate 12 months. Ms Lamba labored with the Congress for 20 years prior to she surrender the celebration and joined the AAP. She received the Delhi election in 2015 from Chandni Chowk.

On September 19, Ms Lamba used to be disqualified from the Delhi meeting by way of Speaker Ram Niwas Goel for defection.

Over 1.47 crore citizens face the number of re-electing the AAP or changing it with the BJP or the Congress. The polling marks the tip of a sour face-off that noticed exceptionally coarse language and communally-charged assaults.

Tight safety preparations are in position around the nationwide capital with further vigil in south-east Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the place a protest towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act is occurring, and different delicate spaces.

The Congress, which dominated Delhi for 15 years prior to being decimated by way of the AAP, has led a somewhat lacklustre marketing campaign. The celebration’s most sensible leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have slightly campaigned for its applicants.

Within the 2015 meeting polls, the AAP had received 54.three in step with cent of the vote, whilst the BJP were given 32 in step with cent and the Congress controlled simply nine.6 in step with cent. Whilst the AAP received 67 seats in 2015, since then the celebration has conceded one seat to the BJP in a bypoll and 6 of its lawmakers had been disqualified over becoming a member of different events.

The result of the Delhi election shall be out on Tuesday.