Published on 12:01 AM, April 09, 2014

Kejriwal slapped again

Kejriwal slapped again

In the second attack on him in the last four days, Arvind Kejriwal was slapped by an auto-rickshaw driver while campaigning for parliamentary polls in Sultanpuri area of New Delhi yesterday.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader directed his anger at BJP after the attack.
Kejriwal, a former income tax inspector, was travelling in an open jeep when a man in a blue shirt reached up to him, first garlanded him and then struck him hard on his left cheek.
The attacker was immediately overpowered by AAP supporters. The man has been identified as Laali who reportedly accused the AAP chief of "betraying auto-drivers."
Thousands of auto-drivers in Delhi actively had campaigned for Kejriwal and AAP before the Delhi state legislature elections in December last year in which the AAP scored an impressive second spot with 28 seats, just behind BJP.
On last Friday, the AAP chief was punched while campaigning at a place in south Delhi. Then too, the attacker had been beaten up by AAP workers before he was handed over to the police.
After yesterday's attack, Kejriwal said on microblogging site Twitter that "I am just thinking - why am i being repeatedly attacked? Who r the masterminds? What do they want? What do they achieve?... Let them tell me place n time. I will come there. Let them beat me as much as they want, but will that solve the country's problems?"  
The former chief minister of New Delhi has been attacked a number of times in the past.
On March 28, he was attacked by a man, who claimed to be a supporter of Anna Hazare, during his election rally in Haryana.