Aam Aadmi Party workers on Saturday staged a protest outside the Delhi BJP office, days after the city government directed its Public Works Department to immediately withdraw an order to demolish slums located near Dhaula Kuan. Police used water cannons to disperse the protestors.

Reacting to the protest, the BJP alleged the AAP leaders were “politically frustrated” after the “corrupt governance of the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation” was exposed and that the party was making an issue out of nothing. The PWD had on December 29 issued a notice asking slum dwellers in the Dhaula Kuan area to vacate the land within 15 days. AAP MLA Somnath Bharti asserted that his party won’t let anybody’s house get demolished. “What is wrong with the BJP? Why are they acting against the people of Delhi?”