The pre-dawn action by the Punjab Police last week against newspaper distribution vans in several towns has revived charges against the Aam Aadmi Party government in the state of crushing dissent.

The day before newspapers, including The Indian Express , could not be distributed on time in the Punjab capital, they had carried the BJP ’s allegations that AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had got for himself a ‘Sheesh Mahal 2.0’ in Chandigarh .

One of the main lines of attack of the BJP against Kejriwal in the Delhi Assembly elections early this year was that Kejriwal had turned the Delhi Chief Minister’s residence into a luxurious ‘Sheesh Mahal’; the polls led to the AAP’s defeat and the BJP’s return to power in Delhi after nearly three decades.

Special DGP (Law and Order) Arpit Shuk

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