Decrying the defacing of roads named after Muslim personalities in Delhi by ‘radical elements’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is heading the Delhi government, has accused the BJP government at the Centre of being a ‘mute spectator’ to ‘right wing groups Talibanising the country.”

“Roads named after Muslim personalities have been defaced by radical elements in the National Capital right under the seat of central government ruled by the BJP-led coalition. The incident, brushed aside as ‘routine hooliganism’, by the Delhi Police and its investigators, is a stigma on the social fabric of the Nation’s Capital, the party said in a release.

AAP said it was appalling; that the perpetrators of the crime had the audacity under Narendra Modi’s rule to paste their complete details on the signage boards after defacing them.

“The right-wing group which dared to do the horrible act undoubtedly draws its power and strength from the BJP-led coalition in power,” it said, adding that ever since BJP came to power at the Centre, several such acts of radical elements hijacking the law and playing moral police have come to the light.

The Centre has played a mute spectator to these groups and their acts of violence and have either being not responded or retaliated meekly to these criminal acts, AAP said, adding that the “lives and properties of minority and weaker sections of the society are continuously under threat.”

On Wednesday night, signages of some roads in Lutyen’s Delhi, named after Muslim personalities, such as Emperor Akbar and Ferozeshah and theatre activist Safdar Hashmi, among others, were found blackened, with posters of a right-wing group, Shiv Sena Hindustan, pasted on them. The poster, among other things, said “‘Bharat mein Islamikaran manzoor nahi…. (Islamisation will not be tolerated in India.)

According to reports, the New Delhi Municipal Council has already filed a police complaint.

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