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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked on Wednesday during a Jan Sunwai at her residence, police said. Initial reports claimed she had been slapped, but Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva denied this, clarifying she was attacked by a man at the event.
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00:00In the national capital of the country, the chief minister has been attacked.
00:05It's a Jan Sunwai event that she holds on a regular basis to interact with the people,
00:10to discuss their problems, their concerns.
00:13It's an open house in that sense, but it's a huge security lapse.
00:18Remember, it could have been worse.
00:19We have purged details now of the attacker at this point in time.
00:24The accused we have been given to understand has said that his name is Rajesh Bhai Kimji Bhai Sakarya.
00:32He is saying that he is a resident of Rajkot.
00:35He is 41 years old and right now we know that he has been taken into police custody.
00:40Of course, as per protocol, detailed investigations will be done.
00:44Interrogation is underway to get a sense of the motive of the attack really at this point in time.
00:50But the name of the attacker first on India today, 41 years of age.
00:54A resident of Rajkot, Rajesh Bhai Kimji Bhai Sakarya.
01:00That's what his name is.
01:01In the Jan Sunwai event, like I said, which is regularly held by the chief minister,
01:06to discuss the problems of the people of Delhi,
01:09getting an opportunity for the people of Delhi to meet directly with the chief minister.
01:14This is something that has been done regularly by Rekha Gupta.
01:18But today, a rather unfortunate incident took place where a 41-year-old attacker from Rajkot slapped her.
01:27We also know that she has received some head injuries at this point in time.
01:32These are the first details of the attacker from Rajkot.
01:35His name is Rajesh Sakarya.
01:40And this is the initial information that we have with us as far as the attacker is concerned.
01:45The attack that took place on the chief minister of Delhi.
01:53I'm going to go straight across to Ashutosh for more details on what could have possibly happened here.
01:59Ashutosh, this is a very, very unfortunate incident.
02:03And I'm afraid, you know, this could have really been worse, isn't it?
02:06Tell us, what do you know as of now?
02:09And also a little more about how this has been a major security lapse also in that sense.
02:17Well, Delhi police is known for his security lapses, major security breaches.
02:21Remember, the previous chief minister, Arvind K. Jawahal,
02:24multiple times he was thrashed and assaulted in presence of Delhi police, unofficial.
02:28And every time when the questions were raised, the Delhi police literally compromised the investigation.
02:32There was neither clear action nor any clear answers.
02:36So all the time and that's exactly why it raises the question in the Delhi police
02:39that despite having a tight security, you have a chief minister's close security
02:43and a person, you know, carries out such assault on the chief minister,
02:47he makes a noise, eventually disrupts the entire meeting.
02:51And when you have such previous incident, now remember,
02:54had it been a first time, Delhi police would say,
02:56okay, we were not prepared or some action would be taken.
02:58But you have in Delhi a precedence that your, you know,
03:01the predecessor has already been assaulted multiple times in Delhi
03:05for a last one decade.
03:07We have seen, and despite that having a, you know,
03:09severe presence of security, remember,
03:11the chief minister of Delhi also a high security protectee.
03:14You have a very close security cover.
03:16The men in, you know, the blue suit,
03:18they are the close security cover of the chief minister.
03:20And when you have a, when you engage into Jan Sabha or Jan Sunwai,
03:24then you made certain arrangements.
03:25Now, what are those arrangements?
03:26I think the Delhi police persons are asking us to move to the other side
03:30because of the massive movement we are seeing of the officials,
03:33the political parties, the representatives,
03:36and of course, the local BJP units are also coming to meet Rekha Gupta.
03:40So, this is no less than a security failure, security lapses
03:45that allowed the security breach of the chief minister.
03:49And of course, motive as far as concerned now,
03:51see, he's been arrested.
03:53Primary Information Cups, some Rajesh Jakaria from Rajkot, Gujarat,
03:56who came here all the way.
03:56Now, eventually, what Jan Sunwai and these agreewances means,
04:01here at the chief minister's residence,
04:02as we know, not here, but all across Delhi,
04:04when these Jan Sunwais take place,
04:06you have the people from the respective constituencies,
04:09including Rekha Gupta being MLA,
04:10so probably the people could be from her constituency.
04:13Then, of course, all 70 other assembly segments,
04:16you would expect people coming from different constituencies
04:18with agreewances, whether it is electricity issues,
04:21road issues, demolition issues, water crisis,
04:24whatever it is,
04:25people come with the different agreewances
04:27and they submit their agreewances
04:29and the chief minister's office at the camp office.
04:31Now, this is not only a resident,
04:32there is also a camp office.
04:34All the chief ministers have
04:34and the ministers have their camp offices.
04:37In the camp offices,
04:38you have the officials from different departments.
04:39These agreewances are handed over to these officials
04:42and then there is a further deliberation,
04:44CMC's response and the concern department
04:46try to redressal up those agreewances.
04:49In that, when it is particularly for the people of Delhi,
04:53for the people of their constituencies,
04:55all of a sudden, you have a person, an outsider,
04:57coming all the way from Gujarat.
04:59The primary thing is,
05:00how did he make himself successful
05:02penetrating through these security walls?
05:04Because he had to cross the one narrow,
05:06extremely narrow gate,
05:08where you have the security persons
05:09frisking literally everyone,
05:10checking the identities, credentials.
05:12And so, that's the first primary level of the failure,
05:16that Delhi police failed to check the credentials
05:18of the individuals.
05:20That's the basic protocol,
05:21what it has to be,
05:22who's entering as the chief minister's office,
05:24you check at least the credentials.
05:26Who's the person?
05:26Where's he coming from?
05:27You all have said,
05:28and what could be the primary work
05:29or even the motive of someone coming from,
05:31all the way to Gujarat, Rajkot,
05:33and here coming to meet Delhi's chief minister.
05:35So, clearly, multiple level,
05:37it has been failure of the Delhi police.
05:38And since it's a daily,
05:41you know, the BJP's government in Delhi,
05:42the BJP's center,
05:44we can surely expect there will be,
05:46you know,
05:46some heads will be rolled on.
05:48Of course, there will be action
05:48even on the security personnel.
05:50Later also, that is going to happen.
05:52But the larger question that remains is that
05:54how Delhi police compromise the security?
05:56How did they fail to,
05:57you know, to assist the situation?
06:00And, of course,
06:01when you have every individual
06:02passing through the gate,
06:03why did they fail the scrutiny
06:05of every individual's entering?
06:06Multiple questions,
06:07but for now, of course,
06:08what we see is shocking,
06:10is condemning.
06:11Now we see the political parties,
06:14we have seen statements
06:15coming from the Delhi BJP chief,
06:17of course,
06:17the fellow colleague,
06:18fellow cabinet ministers of Delhi.
06:20And now the other leaders of the BJP
06:22are also reaching
06:24the chief minister's residence
06:25to meet.
06:27The opposition parties
06:28have also condemned
06:29the assault on the chief minister.
06:30And now we see
06:31the massive, massive deployment
06:33of the security operators
06:34at the CM's residence
06:36here in civil lines.
06:37Sneha.
06:38Ashutosh, I wanted to ask you this.
06:40This was a very welcome move,
06:42isn't it?
06:42These Jansunwai programs
06:44that were announced
06:45by Rekha Gupta
06:45right at the time
06:47when she, in fact,
06:47took over as the chief minister,
06:49which would give an opportunity
06:50for the people,
06:51the citizens,
06:52to directly interact with her.
06:53You know,
06:54what I feel,
06:54you know,
06:55sad about is the fact
06:56that there will be
06:57further scrutiny
06:58on whether this makes sense
07:00at all.
07:01It's a weekly program
07:02and it draws huge crowds
07:04and that sense
07:05it's a big, big hit,
07:06isn't it?
07:06It's an effort
07:07to reach out to the people
07:09directly one-on-one
07:10and this was a very welcome
07:11sort of an initiative.
07:12So, all chief ministers,
07:17this happens all across the country.
07:19Most of these chief ministers,
07:20they have their Jan Sabah,
07:22someone called Jan Sunwai,
07:23someone called
07:23redressal of public grievances.
07:26That's a mechanism
07:27that all the chief ministers,
07:28since they are the leader
07:29of the state,
07:29they are head of the government,
07:31so they carry out
07:31such programs actually
07:32to reach out
07:33to the people directly.
07:34Often in the governance,
07:35we have the complaints
07:36that government
07:36doesn't reach us to us,
07:37our voices are not reaching
07:38and that's exactly why
07:40this concept of Jan Sunwai came,
07:41where the chief minister,
07:42including Rekha Gupta,
07:43what is she doing?
07:44That there is Jan Sunwai
07:45and this massive reach out program
07:47is actually enabling people,
07:49not only from her
07:50assembly constituency,
07:52but all across Delhi,
07:53all 70 assembly constituency caucuses.
07:54We are seeing now
07:55a cabinet minister of Delhi
07:57is also reaching,
07:58we'll have to see whether,
07:59yeah, it's Praveshwarma,
08:00it's Praveshwarma,
08:02the minister in the Delhi government
08:03has now reached
08:04Rekha Gupta's residence.
08:06He is entering
08:07to meet the chief minister,
08:10head of the cabinet,
08:11head of the ministers of council
08:12and now the fellow
08:14cabinet minister,
08:15Praveshwarma has reached
08:16and that's the residence
08:18of Rekha Gupta.
08:20From right side
08:21that you see
08:21of the residence
08:23is actually
08:24the camp office
08:25and now you see
08:26the apparatus.
08:27Do you see the alertness?
08:28They're not allowing media
08:29to even know the ministers
08:30to even talk to them.
08:31This is what
08:32apparatus,
08:33security apparatus,
08:33looks like,
08:34but when they really
08:35had to do this,
08:37when they really had
08:37to be alert
08:38on their toes
08:39as far as high security
08:41is concerned,
08:42VIP is concerned
08:43or head of the government
08:44is concerned,
08:44when you are engaging
08:45with the people
08:45coming to meet her,
08:47then there is a
08:48clearly lapses.
08:49So yes,
08:49it's a massive reach out
08:50program,
08:50all the chief ministers
08:51does it,
08:52but when it comes to
08:53reaching out to the people,
08:54eventually it is a police duty
08:56knowing that she's a VIP,
08:58she's chief minister of Delhi,
08:59high security protectee,
09:01what initial,
09:01the first protocol is,
09:02anyone
09:03and everyone meeting.
09:04Now just let me
09:05give you an example.
09:06There is also
09:07public meetings
09:07where people come
09:08to meet the chief minister
09:09and the other minister
09:09to the Delhi secretariat.
09:10But is it easy
09:11to enter someone
09:12at Delhi secretariat?
09:14Now Delhi's chief minister's
09:15residence
09:16and the secretariat
09:17is no less than
09:18the Delhi secretariat
09:20as far as,
09:21you know,
09:22the security apparatus
09:23is concerned.
09:23So why the Delhi police
09:24fail to analyse
09:26and assess that situation?
09:27That if people are coming,
09:29scrutinise them,
09:30check their credentials,
09:31check their identities
09:31and only with the proper
09:33document of someone
09:33coming with the grievances,
09:34of course,
09:35they will be having
09:35a piece of paper,
09:36bunch of papers
09:37and of course the motive.
09:38Why not register
09:39everything and anything
09:40and only after checking
09:41their credentials
09:41allow people inside.
09:43One side could be
09:44other with that
09:44we are the mass leaders,
09:45we want to meet people
09:46without any security
09:47barricade,
09:48there shouldn't be
09:48any gabbing people.
09:50But that doesn't
09:51allow security personals
09:52to carry out lapses
09:54when it comes to
09:55scrutinise the security
09:56and ensuring the security
09:57of a chief minister
09:59of a state.
09:59So clearly,
10:00there have been lapses.
10:01Of course,
10:02we are seeing now
10:02the officials
10:03from police commissioner's office,
10:04of course,
10:05Delhi police,
10:05all the top security operators
10:07have reached
10:08other chief ministers
10:08of residents.
10:09In fact,
10:09many of these people
10:10see the alertness now
10:12we are being told
10:13to go on the other side.
10:14But when it really comes,
10:15when it really matters
10:16to ensure the security
10:18of a high profile protectee,
10:19clearly it was a failure of.
10:20And of course,
10:21the investigation
10:21will further narrow out
10:23the motive of the person
10:24who came all the way
10:25from Gujarat's Raj court,
10:27started meeting people
10:28with a bunch of paper.
10:29Now,
10:29what could one person
10:30carrying a bunch of paper
10:31would have any work
10:32to do with Mr. Gha Gupta,
10:34the chief minister of Delhi?
10:35Clearly,
10:35a lot of questions
10:36that Delhi police
10:36need to answer.
10:37And of course,
10:38many of these questions,
10:39the investigation
10:39by Delhi police
10:40will answer.
10:41Sneha.
10:42Keep with us.
10:43I'm just going to come back
10:44to you in a moment from now.
10:45Ashutosh Pishra
10:46getting into those details.
10:47BJP now claims
10:48a political plot
10:49and that's the story
10:50at this hour.
10:53BJP says
10:54those afraid
10:54of the party schemes
10:55are actually behind
10:56the attack,
10:57the attempt to attack
10:58the chief minister,
10:59Mrs. Rekha Gupta Ji.
11:00During the public hearing
11:01is a cowardly act.
11:03Those who are afraid
11:03of Ayushman Khan,
11:05Devi buses,
11:06improved sewer system,
11:07clean Yamuna
11:08are now resorting
11:10to such tactics.
11:12The determined government
11:13elected by the people's mandate
11:14will not bow down
11:15or will not be stopping
11:17the development of Delhi.
11:19That's what is now being said.
11:22This is what the party
11:23has said, of course.
11:24Ashutosh
11:25expectedly saying
11:26that there's,
11:27you know,
11:28there's a larger conspiracy
11:29really behind this
11:30and it's got not to do
11:31with one,
11:32you know,
11:32with the grievances
11:34of one person
11:34is what is now being
11:35hinted at by the BJP,
11:37isn't it?
11:41Well, clearly,
11:42I don't understand
11:42there is any grievances
11:44that some one person
11:44would be annoyed
11:46with Rekha Gupta.
11:47Reason one,
11:47he's not a Delhi resident.
11:49Reason two,
11:49he has no credentials
11:50with Delhi.
11:51Reason three,
11:52came all the way
11:52from Rajkot
11:53with a bunch of papers.
11:54Clearly,
11:54the Rekha Gupta,
11:55is chief minister
11:55of Delhi
11:56and even the MLA
11:58being from Shalimar.
11:59So the person
12:00has almost nothing to do.
12:01We'll eventually engage.
12:02Looks like some minister.
12:03Listen,
12:03let's follow.
12:04Looks like one of the cabinet
12:05minister from Delhi
12:06who's coming out.
12:08Let's see if he speaks
12:09something.
12:09We are seeing
12:10a lot of movements,
12:11a lot of people
12:11are coming out
12:12and we see
12:13if he speaks
12:14something.
12:15Of course,
12:16that's a concerning
12:17situation.
12:18So we see most
12:19of the political.
12:20That's Ashish soon.
12:22That's Virin Sachdeva,
12:23actually,
12:24Delhi BJP
12:24president Virin Sachdeva.
12:27Sachdeva,
12:28Sachdeva ji.
12:30Hey,
12:30camera toot gaya.
12:33Sachdeva ji,
12:35kya kahengi
12:35sallam?
12:36Hey,
12:36Sashdeva ji,
12:37kya kahengi?
12:37Kya kahengi sallam?
12:38Kya kahengi?
12:38Kya kahengi?
12:39Kya kahengi?
12:39Kya kahengi?
12:40Kya kahengi?
12:41Kya kahengi?
12:41Kya kahengi?
12:42Kya kahengi?
12:43Kya kahengi?
12:43Kya kahengi?
12:43Kya kahengi?
12:47Kya kahengi si kya kahengi?
12:49Kya kahengi?
12:51Kya kahengi?
12:52Sashdeva say.
12:53Sashdeva say.
12:54I never get recognized
12:56you do
12:57geenjolam?
12:59Alok daadha
13:00Joohya
13:03Alok daadha
13:08Hi ahh,
13:08DITHER
13:09Recentury
13:09take a pose
13:10Let's see what he says.
13:40Let's see what he says.
14:10Let's see what he says.
14:41All right, in fact, pictures are from the Delhi chief minister's residence where we have several leaders, MPs from Delhi, MLAs, ministers in the cabinet there meeting the chief minister.
14:51We have a series of reactions also coming in.
14:53Let's take a listen.
14:54Let's see what he says.
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16:00All right, I'm now being joined by Kiran Bedi at this point in time.
16:12Thank you so much, Kiran Bedi.
16:14I just want to understand from you what could have possibly gone wrong here.
16:17Here is a very popular program of the Delhi chief minister.
16:20She meets the people of Delhi, getting a sense of what their problems, their grievances really are.
16:25And we have this horrific incident of an attacker slapping her, assaulting a woman, assaulting the chief minister today.
16:34What the Honourable Chief Minister is doing of these Jansunwai is a very essential administrative practice of a leader who is dealing and looking at feedback.
16:45Because this Jansunwai are very essential feedback on what kind of problems people are still facing and what kind of how are the departments functioning.
16:55Because it provides transparency and accountability.
16:58So Jansunwai is a very essential good practice as a feedback for any VIP who is dealing with public the way the Honourable Chief Minister does.
17:09So while she continues this practice, I would suggest that, first of all, secondly,
17:15security must check if there is any person smelling of alcohol or in a drunken or in this kind of a mental state or physical state,
17:26that person should be isolated out before.
17:29They should be screened out.
17:30The second is this precaution is important.
17:32But third is there is no guarantee that a certain person who is giving by hand a paper given to the VIP and to the person who is listening,
17:43that he does not use his hand.
17:45So that means we need to essentially have some reasonable distance between the VIP concerns,
17:53in this case the Honourable Chief Minister, and the petitioner.
17:56So that means they need to be a little high.
17:59If she is standing, a high table, a reasonable height table, where the person speaks to you from across the table,
18:07but it's not distant.
18:08It's a few feet, it's a few yards, a few inches.
18:12But he cannot use his hand.
18:13So this way, while the security cleared him from any violent weapon or any weapon of use,
18:22he can use his hand.
18:24So therefore, the table alone can also prevent him and also save him from a close proximity of breast exchange,
18:32because you also have to now maintain sanity, this way, a cleanliness and sanitation of breast ever since COVID.
18:39So therefore, I would think that this is exactly what I used to do in Pondicherry,
18:46when I used to do these open houses in Rajivar, and it was done every day.
18:51I used to have a standing table, which would be going up to my chest size,
18:56and there was a depth of the table, and the person would come and give me the petition across the table.
19:03So I think height needs to be, for the VIP, use a standing table with a reasonable space between the petitioner and you.
19:13All right, that's, you know, that's an excellent suggestion, Kiran Bedi.
19:15I'm going to thank you for the moment for joining in with your use,
19:19the former Commissioner of Police, Commissioner of Delhi Police there.
19:23Kiran Bedi telling us about how these programs, yes, should continue,
19:27but with these precautions taken that she just listed out.
19:30Ashutosh Mishra has an eyewitness from Maharashtra, who saw what really happened there.
19:37Over to you, Ashutosh.
19:41Yes, Neha, and remember we were discussing about how the people during this Jansabha Yatra
19:46is largely confined with the people from the constituencies or Delhi-only them, the known one.
19:50Now, I'm joining by Dr. Mahal, who has come all the way from Maharashtra.
19:53Now, exactly that's what make the grievances, Dr. Mahal.
19:56What was the case of the people during this Jansabha Yatra?
20:00You were talking about the people during this Jansabha Yatra.
20:01The man who arrested him, he was also saying that he was Gujarat, the Rajkot.
20:04Actually, I think that ICCM is not a person who is a local person who is able to get to meet and to meet them.
20:11And I am so much to get to know them.
20:13I am so inspired by his work.
20:16And that's why I came to meet him, for the Jansabha Yatra.
20:18So, I have to go to the whole world, so I am here and I have to sit here and I have to sit here and I was very happy that the common man is very good.
20:28So, tell me exactly what happened.
20:29Exactly.
20:30It happened to me when I was listening to all the problems and the application was submitted.
20:34Then there was a person who was in that line.
20:37His age was 32 to 35.
20:39He was in common dress.
20:41So, I thought that his intention was to do any problems.
20:45His style had to be dressed and black.
20:48Then the security had to be covered.
20:52She also gave a voice about him.
20:54How far he was?
20:55He was on the road.
20:58He was on the road, he was talking about him.
21:01He was talking about him and he was listening.
21:03He was listening to him because he had a completa of security there.
21:06For me, theoda was wrong.
21:09He was listening to him.
21:12It was shocking.
21:28You are from Maharashtra.
21:30The person says he is from Rajkot, Gujarat.
21:33Dr. Mahal claims he has come from Maharashtra.
21:37Clearly there were many people who came to meet Rekha Gupta.
21:40Of course, other than the people who had grievances, the locals from Delhi,
21:43and of course the outsiders who also came to make a visit to the chief minister.
21:48But eventually again, a person goes very close proximity of the chief minister,
21:53a person who was showing paper and all of a sudden engaged into assault.
21:57Clearly multiple questions that will be raised on the Delhi police,
21:59that how did they fail to analyze the situation,
22:02anticipating such crowd, why the adequate arrangements were not made,
22:06despite being a campaign or an event where a chief minister directly engages in conversation with the people.
22:13You make certain security protocols and that's what the Delhi police or any police force are trained to.
22:18That you have to ensure public access of your leader.
22:20You have to ensure access of the chief minister to the people.
22:23But at the same time, what the primary task is to ensure that at no point of time,
22:28someone should assault a high security protector like Delhi's chief minister, Rekha Gupta.
22:34It's an extremely shocking incident that has unfolded in the national capital.
22:38We're hearing the eyewitnesses account and how everything was just happening.
22:41And again, in presence of the police personnel, and particularly in Delhi,
22:45all such incidences have happened in presence of the Delhi police personnel.
22:48Right. You know, Ashutosh, I would think that right now,
22:51there would be a deeper assessment obviously that's going to be done
22:54on how these Jansu with our programs should carry on,
22:57but with necessary steps to be taken so that something like that does not happen again.
23:01Like I said, it could have really been worse, isn't it?
23:04And this is something that the authorities will have to look into
23:07because the leaders are keen on the Jansunwai program.
23:10But how to keep them safe is a big challenge as well,
23:12even if there are no weapons like in this case.
23:14No weapons, but nothing stop these people, this man really,
23:18from attacking the chief minister.
23:23As far as weapon is concerned, you can trust on the agencies and the police
23:27that at no point of time they'll be allowed to go close to a protective,
23:31high security protector with the weapons.
23:33The residents, the kind of arrangements, security, scanners, everything.
23:36But of course, no security agencies can actually analyze the motive or the intentions of any individuals.
23:43However, you rightly said, remember, there are chief ministers in India.
23:47We have seen their pictures, images, videos that for these Jansabhai, Jansabha
23:52or public grievances, public hearing, there are standard SOPs made.
23:57There are standard protocols made.
23:58In fact, people, eventually individual by individual who sit in a line at number of seats, maintaining certain distance.
24:05And individual police personnel hold those people.
24:08Even children, even women, old, senior citizens.
24:11There are police personnel who literally hold those people.
24:14And, you know, that's the kind of difference and distances that they make to ensure that the elected leader,
24:20elected chief minister meet the people.
24:22Hear the grievances, redressal, carry out the redressal with the officials who are also along with the chief ministers.
24:28But there are SOPs made.
24:29How did Delhi police fail to such situation?
24:31Again, I'm saying, this is not a first precedent.
24:34For last one decade, the previous chief minister of Delhi, Erwin Kejriwal, have been multiple times attacked.
24:39I mean, not only in the public gathering, not in public meeting.
24:42People even threw chili powder on his face at Delhi's highest security secretariat.
24:48So, these kind of incidents happened.
24:50And all these areas are extremely, you know, the periphery security cover totally lies with the Delhi police.
24:57So, despite of all these arrangements, having seen the previous such instances,
25:01this kind of incidents unfolding, raising absolutely severe questions on the Delhi police.
25:05That this is total, no less than a failure of, you know, the security personnel, the Delhi police,
25:11everyone involved to ensure the security of the protective of Delhi chief minister.
25:16Absolutely.
25:17Big questions are being raised on what could have possibly happened here.
25:20What was the motive behind it?
25:22Even as the questioning, Ashutosh, of this man in question is underway.
25:26The BJP, of course, has said that this has got to do with those people
25:29who are upset about the good work that the Delhi government is doing at this point in time.
25:33And to derail our work in that sense.
25:43Ashutosh.
25:44You know, Ashutosh.
25:45Yes, I was asking you that the BJP has said that this has got to do with those people
25:57who are upset about the good work, so to speak, that is being done by the Delhi government,
26:01and they want to derail those efforts.
26:04Well, again, these kind of statements we have heard in the past when the previous chief ministers were attacked totally.
26:14What political statements are coming, what political parties or the closed people, they say,
26:18that's a totally different domain.
26:20Hear what it comes.
26:21What is most important?
26:22There is an elected chief minister.
26:23She is a high security cover protectee.
26:26There is an official chief minister's resident.
26:28There is official camp office.
26:29There is everything here with regards to that.
26:32Let me turn the camera on the other side.
26:34Everything that you see here at bungalow number two and three, at eight, Raj Nimaas,
26:37which is the official residence of Delhi's chief minister, Mukhi Mantri, is called Jan Sevasadhan.
26:42Everything is official here.
26:43No one can enter and no one should enter without proper credentials, with proper authority.
26:48Even if the people are coming for such mass meetings or the grievance results, who will check the credentials?
26:54Who is supposed to ensure that people, armed people or people with bad intentions, people with bad motives should not enter?
27:01Who will ensure that?
27:02It's not the closed people or the people living in the chief minister's residence or the chief minister herself.
27:07It is the security cover protectee and that's why the security cover is being given.
27:11When you are insured Y security protectee, Z security protectee, Z plus security cover, it is to ensure that the chief minister, the head of the government, is always safe.
27:20She or he should have access to the people.
27:23He or she should meet the people, but at the same time, the security must be insured.
27:28Someone all the way going very close.
27:30This is also not a, you know, extremely tough on mountain task.
27:33People go close to the chief minister.
27:35That's the aura that, you know, one elected chief minister or the people that develop, that they want to be close to the people.
27:40Right.
27:41But then when you hold these kind of events or gathering, then why, you know, if a larger events are happening, we see a metal detector, pyrophyses, everything is made.
27:48Why this kind of lapses?
27:49So this is clearly goes on the lapses.
27:51And of course, the investigation will further disclose the motive about the person.
27:55Absolutely.
27:56And gave us an idea about what could have possibly happened here and what was the grievance and then obviously action that's going to be taken against for a crime of this nature.
28:03Ashutosh, I'm going to leave it at that for the moment.
28:06The Delhi chief minister has been attacked.
28:09There's been a physical assault on the Delhi chief minister that continues, in fact, to be a top focus story.
28:14But there's something else that we are tracking very closely.
28:17The NDA vice presidential candidate, C.P. Radha Krishnan, would be, in fact, filing the nomination today.
28:23And I'm going to hand it over now to my colleague, Maria Shaquille, who joins us with the very latest on that and much more.
28:31Maria.
28:32Thank you, Sneha.
28:33Yes, the nomination papers will be filed roughly around 11.
28:36But our top focus remains this attack which has happened on the Delhi chief minister, Rekha Gupta.
28:42This was during the course of Jan Sunwai, an event which is largely to do with her connecting directly with the people of Delhi, trying to address to their grievance.
28:52But there was someone who was in the age group of 30 to 40 who has attacked her.
28:57There has been an incident of assault on the Delhi chief minister.
29:00What details that we have is that this person, the attacker, has been identified as Rajesh Sakarya.
29:07He comes from Rajkot in Gujarat.
29:10How was he allowed inside the premises of the Delhi chief minister is the big question.
29:16Were his credentials checked is another question.
29:19He is presently being questioned by the Delhi police, even as the entire political circle in the national capital has been almost set in a tizzy of sort because of this.
29:31How is the CM doing?
29:33She has been rushed to the hospital.
29:34The top officers of the Delhi police have rushed to her residence to secure the entire home of the Delhi chief minister.
29:42At that very moment, when she was attending to Jan Sunwai meeting at her residence, which is a weekly event, happens every week, every, you know, Wednesday in the Delhi chief minister's residence.
29:59This is more of a connect, an attempt to connect.
30:02You can see those visuals on your television screens as well.
30:04Ashutosh continues to be with us.
30:06Ashutosh, eyewitnesses have said that this attacker came with papers.
30:11He approached the chief minister.
30:13He was talking to her and suddenly he attacked her.
30:16We do not know the motive as yet, but he is coming from Rajkot in Gujarat.
30:23So certainly those who were supposed to be protecting the chief minister did not do the proper background check here.
30:31He is starting to have conversations right now.
30:34Absolutely.
30:35And let me also tell you, Maria, when these meetings happened with the chief minister in Jan Sunwai, let me also take you these images, it looks like another minister, that's Kapil Mishra looks like, another cabinet minister who is reaching the chief minister's residence.
30:47A lot of Delhi BJP leaders, the fellow colleagues in the Delhi Council of the ministers, they are reaching the residence of the chief minister.
30:55And of course, we see when the hundreds of these people are coming with their grievances, the chief minister's residence, clearly most of the time what the primary task of the Delhi police or the security apparatus is to ensure whether the person is armed or not.
31:07So at these barricades, there are metal detectors, there are scanners and everything.
31:11What is difficult for the agencies to ensure the motive of the individual entering in the house.
31:16And clearly this is being Jan Sunwai largely we have seen at many of the chief minister's residence.
31:21Just hold on to your thoughts because there is an important piece of update which is coming in now.
31:26The Delhi police has now contacted the Gujarat police.
31:29Delhi police is now verifying the name and address as has been given by the accused.
31:35So certainly our two state polices are now working in close coordination.
31:40Remember, this assault has happened on Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta.
31:44So the reasons for this assault has to be properly investigated.
31:48And now the details coming in is that Delhi police has contacted the Gujarat police trying to verify all the details and credentials which have been shared by attacker here.
32:00And attacker, remember, was carrying papers.
32:03He approached the chief minister and as soon as he started talking to her, suddenly there was an attack.
32:10You know, in fact, one of the Delhi ministers is speaking. Kapil Mishra, let's listen in.
32:14Let's listen in.
32:15Let's listen in.
32:16Let's listen in.
32:17All right. That was Kapil Mishra giving a quick reaction.
32:21All Delhi ministers, of course, rushing to see whether the chief minister is well.
32:28At the moment, what we can say that she has been hospitalized.
32:30What's her condition?
32:31We certainly hope that she is healthy and she is fine.
32:32Let's go back to Ashutosh who continues to be with us.
32:33Ashutosh, what's the update that's coming in on the chief minister's health?
32:37A very critical piece of the information.
32:38As far as health is concerned of the chief minister, she is absolutely fine.
32:39Of course, it leaves a trauma when you're engaged with the people, meeting people every day.
32:44Carrying out routine exercises.
32:45And then clearly, you know, these kind of incidents happening just among the people,
32:47it leaves you some kind of mental illness.
32:48So, you know, what's her condition?
32:49What's her condition?
32:50We certainly hope that she is healthy and she is fine.
32:51Let's go back to Ashutosh who continues to be with us.
32:52Ashutosh, what's the update that's coming in on the chief minister's health?
32:55A very critical piece of the information.
33:00As far as health is concerned of the chief minister, she is absolutely fine.
33:03Of course, it leaves a trauma when you're engaged with the people, meeting people every day,
33:07carrying out routine exercises.
33:09And then clearly, you know, these kind of incidents happening just among the people,
33:13it leaves you some kind of mental trauma.
33:14And remember, we have seen previous multiple such kind of assaults have taken place with
33:19the previous chief minister of Delhi in presence of Delhi police.
33:23So clearly, if someone needed to be held accountable is the Delhi police,
33:27that this is not one such incidents.
33:29You haven't learned lessons from the past at the public meetings, at the many venues,
33:33even at the Delhi secretariat, people just XYZ whoever comes down and just assault an electric
33:38chief minister, despite being a high security protectee.
33:40Now we have a critical piece of information as far as the development is concerned,
33:43Maria, the person who is from Rajkot, you rightly mentioned out.
33:46He has some of his relative who's under trial and is now locked up in a Tihar jail.
33:52So the person, some of the relative, this person, the accused person, someone very close relative
33:56is in Tihar jail, who's under trial.
33:58The case is in court and he wanted early release of that person.
34:03Now remember the Tihar jail or the release or the parole, these issues also lies with the elected government,
34:08left in government.
34:09There's a, you know, a full bench of the elected government and the official, that's it.
34:12And then they, they takes on decision of the parole and other, other thing.
34:16Looks like he came for the early release, seeking early release and that was the document that he was,
34:21initially we heard the eyewitnesses that he was showing to the chief minister.
34:24And then he responded, then he acted and assaulted the chief minister.
34:28That's the primary information.
34:29Resident of Gujarat, he came here for seeking early release or something about his close relative.
34:34He met the chief minister with the request and that bunch of papers.
34:37Of course, the further investigation will reveal more and more motives.
34:40But even after all the motive, remember we have high security such chief ministers across the country.
34:44They also hold these Jan Sabahs, Maria.
34:46And in many of these pictures we have seen when the chief minister and those people,
34:50there are certain fit of the distance that is always maintained.
34:53In many of these pictures, we have the security personnel.
34:55Literally, all those people have come for the Jan Sabah.
34:57If not that, at least ensure some distance.
35:00She should be audible to the people.
35:02People should be audible to her.
35:03Ensuring who will make these arrangements.
35:05These arrangements will come exactly with the GAD department of the Delhi government,
35:09with the PW department of the government, of course the chief secretary,
35:12the principal secretary of the chief minister,
35:14and of course the security apparatus that also includes the CRP and the Delhi pool.
35:19So this is a failure of a total government.
35:21This is a total machinery that an electric chief minister who is meeting on the people on the Gribans day
35:27is being assaulted in a broad daylight, Maria.
35:29Absolutely.
35:30Unfortunate turn of events certainly here, Ashutosh.
35:33Ashutosh, on an average, how many people attend a Jan Sunwai or Jan Sabah of this nature of Rekha Gupta every week?
35:43So how many people should we be expecting, you know, when this incident happened inside her home?
35:51Around 100, around 100, no less than 100 because it's a weekly program.
35:57It's a weekly program.
35:58So you expect people not only from a Shalimar Bach constituency, she is also being an MLA,
36:03but you have the 70 assembly pockets segment.
36:05Now there are multiple such issues, whether it is electricity, inflated bills.
36:09We have seen, I have been to many of these Jan Sabahs of many of the chief ministers.
36:14People come out with the inflated bills.
36:15People come for the admission of their children, some road repairing work, some water crisis issues.
36:21There are a lot of things.
36:22People even come for an insuring job, some kind of job for their family members.
36:26So these are the grievances when people come and that's the best time when you have these kind of residence.
36:30And remember, there's not only a residence of a chief minister, just alongside you have the entire structure.
36:35This is for a camp office.
36:37So every chief minister and the cabinet minister, council of ministers, they have their camp offices.
36:41Even all the MPs, you know, the people come from their constituencies, they come with the grievances.
36:46And then you also have, on this particular day, not only the chief minister, but also the officials from different departments
36:50and the camp offices also say.
36:52So every grievance that come to the chief minister or there, the officials, they forward it to the concerned department for redressals.
36:58So in that case, when it happens, you expect people at least no less than 100.
37:02Sometime it even goes to 200 to 300 people.
37:04And that's why you see a massive crowd when these have, I've seen the one of such event at Shalimar Bagh at a residence,
37:10when people, not only locals, outsiders, everyone came in a huge number.
37:13So largely it is expected that on these kind of day, you'll have people only from, restricted from Delhi,
37:19or their own constituency.
37:21But we have seen people like this person.
37:23He came all the way from Rajkot.
37:24Another person, Dr. Mahal, who was just speaking to him, was an eye witness.
37:28He said he came all the way from Maharashtra to meet Rekha Gupta.
37:31He was impressed by her work.
37:32So clearly, number of people, of course, you cannot restrict.
37:35But again, when it comes to management, what are the SOPs?
37:38The SOPs of to ensure protection of a high security is with the security agency.
37:43That's their primary responsibility.
37:45It's not that you have to do it.
37:47How you do it, that's your job.
37:48You have to define certain lines, that how will you ensure that she meets the people.
37:52You have to ensure that people also get an access.
37:55But you also have to ensure that there is a security in short.
37:58Another goes to the picture.
38:00That's Manjinder Sirsa, who has also come to meet the Chief Minister.
38:03So since morning, right after the assault, we have seen the senior leadership speaking to the Chief Minister.
38:08Many of these leaders visiting here, meeting the family members.
38:13All right, some more details that are coming in now.
38:28This is the detail which regard to the motive of the attacker.
38:34What we can tell in details is that he is a resident of Raj Court and one of his relatives is in jail.
38:44And he had brought an application to get him released.
38:47The case is going on in the court.
38:49The attacker came with a plea to free relative.
38:52The question really is that does it fall in the domain of the Delhi Chief Minister?
38:57Yes, it does, because this is more of an administrative decision.
39:01It is about the Tihar jail, which is the domain of the Chief Minister again.
39:08So the relative came with that plea.
39:11How do these Jansunwai events actually happen, Ashutosh?
39:16The reason why I am saying is that there must be...
39:21All right, let's listen in to what Sarav Bhardwaj of the Aam Admi Party is saying.
39:26Let's listen in.
39:27Let's listen in.
39:28Let's listen in.
39:29Let's listen in.
39:30Let's listen in.
39:32Let's listen in.
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40:16So the statement remember which came from the Delhi Chief Minister's office was that Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked during a public grievance hearing and the Delhi Police promptly took the accused into custody and is interrogating it.
40:34What we can tell our viewers is also the statement which has come in now from the Delhi Police.
40:39They are saying that there was a heavy object which was hurled at the Chief Minister causing her to fall to the ground.
40:45However, an official confirmation and statement that Delhi Police is still awaited.
40:50What we can tell our viewers also is the attacker, his background.
40:55His background is that he is a resident of Gujarat's Rajkot.
40:59He was later arrested.
41:00His grievance was that he wanted support of the Chief Minister in getting one of his relatives who is presently lodged in Tihar Jail to be released.
41:10What was the nature of that case?
41:13We do not know.
41:15The case is still ongoing in a Delhi court.
41:18You know, the details of which is still sketchy at the moment.
41:21This incident happened roughly around 8.45 to 9 a.m. this morning.
41:27The Chief Minister, Rekha Gupta of Delhi, was in fact holding a Jan Sunwai or a public grievance event, a weekly event at her residence, which happens every Wednesday around from 8 to 10 a.m.
41:40That's when the Chief Minister speaks to almost 100 people.
41:45These are, you know, residents of Delhi who come from different parts of Delhi.
41:49All of them, if they have any concern, they get a direct hearing of the Chief Minister.
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