Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar Slapped While Campaigning

New Delhi: A youngsters slapped Kanhaiya Kumar, the North East Delhi candidate of Congress, while he was campaigning for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024 on Friday. The video of the incident is going viral on social media. The Ghaziabad Police have arrested the two accused, News18 reported quoting sources.

The viral video shows the attack on Kanhaiya Kumar. A person can be heard saying, “Kanhaiya pitne wala hai” (Kanhaiya is going to be beaten). Soon after this, a youth in a black t-shirt with a garland in his hands went closer to Kanhaiya on the pretext of garlanding him and slapped the Congress leader.

In a statement, Kanhaiya Kumar’s team has alleged that the attack on him was ordered by sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP Manoj Tiwari as the saffron party is scared of the growing popularity of the Congress leader.

A complaint has been filed and the police have launched an investigation into the matter. According to the complaint, the Congress candidate was in a meeting at the AAP Office at 4th Pushta, Swami Subramanium Bhawan, New Usmanpur. AAP Councillor Chhaya Sharma was hosting a meeting. After the meeting, Sharma came down to see off Kanhaiya Kumar when some people came to garland the Congress leader. “However, after garlanding him, some people threw ink on the Congress candidate and tried to assault him,” the complaint further stated.

On witnessing the attack, when Sharma tried to intervene, the crowd misbehaved and threatened her as well. Notably, legal action is being taken on Chhaya Sharma’s complaint.