The AAP alleged on Sunday the Delhi Police has scuttled their yet another attempt to screen a documentary based on the arrest of party leaders including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia.
There was no immediate reaction from the police on the ruling party’s claim on Sunday. However, they had said on Saturday that the party did not seek permission for screening the documentary Unbreakable and in any case, it could not be allowed due the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct in the city.
The party said that under pressure from BJP, Delhi Police on Sunday stopped AAP from holding a press conference and did not allow journalists to show the documentary made on Arvind Kejriwal. The party had booked the Godavari Auditorium at Andhra Association for the press conference.
In protest against stopping the press conference, Rajya Sabha AAP MP Sanjay Singh staged a sit-in outside the auditorium and asked to show the order to stop it, but they could not. Singh said, “BJP can do whatever it wants, but AAP will continue to show the documentary. Why is BJP afraid of this documentary? In this we want to show how Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in a fake case. A hall was booked to show the documentary. Election Commission should explain under which rule it cancelled its permission?”
He said that the documentary film is about how Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain were kept in jail by making fake cases. “There is no election campaign in it and neither has there been any appeal for votes. We had not come to hold any meeting. On Saturday, that documentary was stopped from being shown. On Sunday, I wanted to show it to the media by holding a press conference,” he said.
"I want to ask the Election Commission under which rule the permission was denied. There was not going to be any public meeting, election campaigning or appeal for vote was to be made. I came alone for the press conference and screening the documentary," Singh said outside an auditorium of the Andhra Association in Central Delhi.
He said he was verbally conveyed that the permission for the press conference and screening was denied.
A screening of the documentary, based on the arrest of A leaders over the last two years in corruption cases, at the Pyarelal Bhawan near ITO was prevented by the police on the ground that no permission was taken for the event which is mandatory as the MCC is in place for the February 5 Assembly polls.