Tajinder Bagga’s father distributes laddoos after court relief, says ready for long fight against Kejriwal

Relieved after the high court temporarily shielded Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga from arrest, the BJP leader’s father Pritpal Singh was seen distributing laddoos and gearing himself up for a drawn-out battle against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal.

“This fight [against Kejriwal] will go on for a long time. He won’t stop doing wrong things and we won’t stop opposing him,” Pritpal Singh told India Today.

On Saturday night, the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted reprieve to Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national secretary Tajinder Bagga by directing that no coercive action be taken against him till May 10, after he sought a stay on the arrest warrant issued by a Mohali court earlier in the day.

Bagga was arrested by the Punjab Police from his Delhi home on Friday, stopped in Haryana while being taken to Punjab and brought back to the national capital by Delhi Police hours later.

The Punjab Police had booked Tajinder Bagga on the charges of making provocative statements, promoting enmity and criminal intimidation. The case was registered on a complaint of AAP leader Sunny Ahluwalia, a resident of Mohali.

The FIR registered on April 1 referred to Bagga’s remarks on March 30, when he was part of a BJP youth wing protest outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The BJP leader was booked under relevant sections, including 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place etc), 505 (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report) and 506 (criminal intimidation), of the Indian Penal Code.Live TV.