Suspended AAP MLAs Blocked From Entering Delhi Assembly Complex, Officials Cite Speaker's Directive
The AAP vs BJP showdown was witnessed in the national capital on Thursday over the "denial of entry" to AAP MLAs to the Delhi Assembly complex.
Massive drama unfolded in the national capital on Thursday as Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Atishi claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were not being allowed entry to the premises on the orders of Speaker Vijender Gupta.
The AAP MLAs were suspended on Tuesday for three days for raising slogans and creating a ruckus during L-G VK Saxena’s address in the House.
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When Atishi confronted the police over the denial of entry, the police cited a directive from the Speaker.
AAP MLAs Blocked Entry To Delhi Assembly Premises
Today, the AAP MLAs said that the Delhi Police had placed barricades, barring them from entering the Assembly complex.
LoP Atishi termed the BJP government’s move as “open dictatorship" and asked how elected MLAs can be stopped from accessing the Assembly premises.
“This is dictatorship. In the history of the country, this has never happened that you’re not allowing an elected MLA to enter the Assembly complex. You can suspend us from the House, but how can you stop us from entering the premises? How can they stop the LoP from visiting the LoP office?" she said.
She questioned the police and sought a written order on the denial of their entry.
“They (police) don’t even have a written order; they have only placed barricades," she said.
The police replied that they had the Speaker’s directive.
#WATCH | Delhi Assembly LoP and AAP leader Atishi outside the Assembly premises; she alleges that Police are not letting AAP MLAs into Assembly premises on the order of the Speaker pic.twitter.com/XJnNIAbk91— ANI (@ANI) February 27, 2025
AAP MLAs Stage Protests
The AAP MLAs staged a protest outside the complex, just in front of the barricades, and raised slogans against the government while also raising placards.
“As soon as the BJP government came to power in Delhi, open dictatorship has begun. The elected MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party are not even being allowed to enter the Assembly premises. This attitude of the BJP government, the Assembly Speaker, and the police has crossed all limits of dictatorship and is murdering democracy," she told the reporters.
Reacting to the suspension of the AAP MLAs, Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra said that the party should discuss the issues pertaining to the people of the city and run the House in a dignified manner.
“No Assembly in the country can work with such a conduct (of opposition MLAs) in Vidhan Sabha. For 10 years, the issues of the people of Delhi have not been discussed here. We will not let anyone carry out such a conspiracy that the issues of the people of Delhi are not discussed…Today’s decision (of suspension of opposition MLAs) is the decision of the Speaker. I think that now AAP people should understand that they should discuss the issues of Delhi and run the House in a dignified manner," Mishra said.
Delhi Minister Parvesh Verma backed the suspension of the AAP MLAs and said that they had disrupted the proceedings of the House by raising slogans during the L-G’s address. “If they break the laws in this manner, it’s not good," he said.
The BJP government has announced to table all 14 pending CAG reports of the previous AAP government in the Assembly session, however, no such report is scheduled to be tabled today.
The AAP MLAs were suspended from the House after they created an uproar over the CAG report on the now-scrapped liquor policy.
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