AAP alleges Delhi MLA 'kidnapped' by police amid sanitation worker protest

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused Delhi Police of abducting its East Delhi MLA, Kuldeep Kumar, in the early hours of Tuesday. AAP Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj stated that approximately 20 plainclothes police officers took Kumar from his residence at 4 a.m. Bharadwaj alleged that the MLA was targeted for advocating for the family of a sanitation worker who was recently killed.

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Today, at 4 am, around 20 policemen came in plain clothes and kidnapped AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar. He had been raising the voice of sanitation workers demanding compensation for the family.

According to Bharadwaj, Kumar had been actively supporting the sanitation workers' demand for 1 crore rupees in compensation and a permanent government job for a family member of the deceased. Instead of addressing the protesters' demands, Bharadwaj claimed, the police forcibly took Kumar to an undisclosed location. He further alleged that Delhi Police are pressuring the family to proceed with the cremation of the sanitation worker's body.

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They demanded that CM Rekha Gupta meet the family, but instead of meeting the protesters, they have taken MLA Kuldeep Kumar to an undisclosed location.

This incident occurs amidst a protest by hundreds of sanitation workers and auto-tipper drivers at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital. They are demanding justice and financial support for the family of Anil, an on-duty sanitation worker killed in Kalyanpuri. The protesters have refused to allow Anil's body to be released from the hospital mortuary until their demands are met, threatening to halt auto-tipper services across Delhi.

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He added that after the brutal murder of a sanitation worker, thousands of sanitation workers had been on a sit-in protest for two days. They were demanding that the government provide 1 crore in compensation. But now the police have forcibly brought the dead body from the hospital to the home.