Right wing leader disrupts AAP conference, calls Bhushan traitor

After a violent protest rally held outside the AAP office in Ghaziabad last week, a press conference being held by the Aam Aadmi party in Delhi was disrupted by a lone activist of a Hindu group who was protesting against party leader Prashant Bhushan's view on Kashmir.

The press conference was being held at the Indian Women's Press Corps in Delhi to announce the support of the Narmada Bachao Andolan for the Aam Aadmi Party. It was being addressed by Bhushan, and a representative of the Narmada Bachao Andolan.

However, while Bhushan was speaking, an individual identified as Vishnu Gupta began distributing pamphlets which were assumed to be related to the press conference.

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He then began shouting slogans against Bhushan, for his alleged comments on holding a referendum in Kashmir to determine if the army should stay there. Gupta also shouted slogans against the AAP saying that they were traitors.

"They are agents of the CIA and spreading Maoism," he shouted.

Gupta was mobbed by the press and moved outside the venue where he continued to shout slogans. Bhushan was unaffected by the protester but the press conference wound up soon afterwards.

In the pamphlet, which is a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the group alleged that Bhushan was behind ensuring that Hindu Raksha  Dal's Pinky Choudhary, held responsible for leading a violent rally to the AAP office, stayed in jail and didn't get bail.

"If your intentions are honest then you should withdraw the charges against Pinky Choudhary and the 12 others...We accept your request for a debate and we have only one condition that it should take place in the presence of the public and media, and you should answer all our questions," the letter stated.

The lone protester also distributed a list of 12 questions for the Delhi chief minister.

A group of around 30 to 40 persons had attacked the AAP office in Ghaziabad on 8 January in which property around the office was damaged. However, no one was injured in the incident.