Overview
- Delhi Police detained several Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj, near the BJP headquarters during a demonstration over a video targeting Atishi.
- AAP leaders demanded an apology from Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and accused the BJP of circulating a fake clip that wrongly suggests an insult to Guru Tegh Bahadur.
- Delhi BJP figures Kapil Mishra and Virendra Sachdeva maintained that Atishi used offensive language in the Assembly and pressed for apologies from AAP leaders.
- The Jalandhar Police registered an FIR on the uploading and circulation of an edited video, and a Punjab Police forensic review concluded the clip was doctored and the word “Guru” was not spoken.
- Linking the row to public safety, AAP criticized the BJP government's law-and-order record after the daylight killing of party worker Rachna Yadav in Shalimar Bagh.