Arvind Kejriwal's AAP claims party office raided in Ahmedabad, cops deny

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Police on Monday denied the allegations of a raid by the Aam Aadmi Party at its party office. Taking to Twitter, the Ahmedabad Police said, "Aam Aadmi Party's office was raided by Ahmedabad city police yesterday, this news has come to light from social media. No such raid has come to be done by Ahmedabad city police". AAP on Sunday claimed that police have raided its office in Ahmedabad. The party said while claiming that the ruling BJP is "extremely rattled" by the "immense support" it is getting in the run-up to the Gujarat Assembly polls.

कल आम आदमी पार्टी के कार्यालय पर अहमदाबाद शहर पुलिस द्वारा रेड करने में आई, ऐसा समाचार सोशल मीडिया से ज्ञात हुआ है.
इस प्रकार का कोई रेड अहमदाबाद शहर पुलिस के द्वारा करने में नहीं आई है

— Ahmedabad Police અમદાવાદ પોલીસ (@AhmedabadPolice) September 12, 2022

Taking to Twitter, AAP's Gujarat unit leaders said that the raid was carried out soon after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Ahmedabad. Reacting to the development, Kejriwal said the Gujarat police found nothing at the party office as the leaders and workers of the AAP are "hardcore honest".

"The BJP is extremely rattled by the immense support that the AAP is getting from the people of Gujarat. There is a storm in favour of the AAP in Gujarat," Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.
"Raids have started in Gujarat too after Delhi. Nothing was found in Delhi, and nothing was found in Gujarat too. We are hardcore honest and patriotic people," he added.

गुजरात की जनता से मिल रहे अपार समर्थन से भाजपा बुरी तरह बौखला गयी है। “आप” के पक्ष में गुजरात में आँधी चल रही है

दिल्ली के बाद अब गुजरात में भी रेड करनी शुरू कर दी। दिल्ली में कुछ नहीं मिला, गुजरात में भी कुछ नहीं मिला

हम कट्टर ईमानदार और देशभक्त लोग हैं https://t.co/GBu1ddoSIY

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) September 11, 2022

The AAP national convenor hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after his party's Gujarat unit leader Isudan Gadhvi claimed on Twitter that police raided the party office and carried out searches for two hours, soon after Kejriwal arrived in Ahmedabad.

"Gujarat Police's raid at the Aam Aadmi Party's office as soon as Kejriwal arrived in Ahmedabad. Carried out searches for two hours and left. Nothing found. Said they will come again," Gadhvi said in a tweet in Hindi.

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"The BJP is so scared with the growing popularity of the Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat that now it is misusing power to get our office raided," the Gujarat unit of the AAP said in a tweet. "After Delhi, now they have started getting raids conducted in Gujarat too. Be it Delhi or Gujarat, they are not going to find anything," it added.

The Gujarat Assembly polls are slated to be held later in the year.