In more trouble for the Aam Aadmi Party, an FIR has been registered against Delhi MLA Alka Lamba. A BJP lawmaker whose shop was targeted in the drive hit out at Ms Lamba and called her a “drug addict.”
The Delhi Police has filed a case of trespass against Ms Lamba after complaints by shopkeepers in her constituency Chandni Chowk.
The case was filed hours after CCTV footage from a sweet shop showed Ms lamba walking straight to the counter of a shop and toppling a billing machine. The man next to her then pushed everything off the table.
“What I did was in a fit of anger, I should learn restrain from my leader Arvind Kejriwal,” Ms Lamba told, adding, “I am not afraid of jail…if I have done anything wrong, send me to Tihar.”
On the other hand, Lamba had said on Sunday that she was attacked during an anti-drugs campaign in north Delhi’s Kashmere Gate area and sustained head injuries.
Lamba started her anti-drugs drive around 5 am and was standing in front of Shiv Mishthan Bhandar, allegedly owned by a BJP MLA, when a man in the shop hurled a stone at her, national spokesman of AAP, Sanjay Singh, had said at a press conference.
The Chandni Chowk MLA was rushed to Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, where she she was discharged after treatment.
At the same time, the police arrested a man identified as Jitin regarding the incident.
“Whether she (Alka Lamba) is helping people fight addiction or is addicted herself is a matter of investigation. Whatever you see on the CCTV footage is not the action of a normal person. She took hooligans along,” OP Sharma said. Alka Lamba said she had written to the Delhi Commission for Women against Mr. Sharma’s comments.
Alka Lamba’s campaign was compared by some to another controversial incident involving another AAP leader, former law minister Somnath Bharti. Last year, Somnath Bharti was accused of targeting African nationals in a midnight raid against an alleged sex and drugs racket in his constituency.
