"Cowardly attack": AAP candidate Mohinder Goyal hits out at BJP

New Delhi [India], February 1 : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from the Rithala assembly constituency, Mohinder Goyal, condemned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday for the alleged "cowardly attack" on him, asserting that people would give a befitting reply in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
Earlier in the day, AAP's incumbent MLA was rushed to Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini after the attack, as he subsequently fell unconscious, according to the Delhi police.
Goyal is in a triangular electoral contest against BJP's Kulwant Rana and Congress' Shushant Rana.
"Today, this cowardly attack is the BJP candidate (Kulwant Rana) from here. These people ended their terror here, but he is hungry for power again, he wants to intimidate the public by attacking me again. People are not going to be afraid. People will not be afraid. People will defeat them with more votes than before," Goyal told ANI.
The AAP candidate claimed that the public continues to support the ruling dispensation due to the work done in various areas such as electricity, hospitals etc.
"We have done all the work for the people here, whether it is on water, electricity, sewer, hospitals or mohalla clinics or civilians, so we have done all this work, so people love us and support us, but no one will be afraid of their hooliganism," he added.
Earlier, AAP's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal addressed a rally in support of Goyal, saying that the people of Delhi would reject the politics of "hooliganism."
"Seeing this condition of Mohinder Goyal makes me cry. How people from other party attacked him, you should tell about your work, Delhiites do not like the politics of attacking others and hooliganism. If this is the condition before the elections, then you can imagine what they will do after the elections. Imagine what they will do to you and your daughters-in-law after the elections. BJP people have created hooliganism in the whole of Delhi. Police are giving them protection," Kejriwal said.
On January 27, Congress candidate Sushant Mishra from Rithala also alleged being assaulted by Election Commission officials during a padyatra.
"We (Congress) were taking out a padyatra with permission. Suddenly Election Commission officials came there who did not introduce themselves at that time. Hiding their identity, they tried to stop our march," the Congress candidate told ANI.
The District Magistrate of North-West Delhi called the allegations baseless and said that the election officials were conducting their duties fairly and impartially.