Delhi: Row erupts after AAP accuses BJP of removing Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh images from CM office

A political row erupted in New Delhi on Monday after the Opposition Aam Aadmi Party accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of taking down photographs of BR Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh from the chief minister’s office.

The Aam Aadmi Party claimed that the images were replaced with those of Mahatma Gandhi, President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

However, the BJP claimed that the allegations were false and were made to hide the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s “corruption and misdeeds”.

Earlier in the day, Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Chief Minister Atishi claimed that the BJP had “shown its true anti-Dalit and anti-Sikh face” by removing the images of Ambedkar and Singh from the chief minister’s office.

She also shared photographs of the office when she was chief minister that showed images of the two leaders on display and another of the room with portraits of Gandhi, Murmu and Modi with the newly-inducted Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.

भाजपा ने अपना असली दलित विरोधी और सिख विरोधी चेहरा दिखा दिया है। दिल्ली विधान सभा के मुख्यमंत्री कार्यालय से बाबासाहेब भीम राव अंबेडकर और शहीद-ए-आज़म भगत सिंह की तस्वीरें हटा दी गईं है pic.twitter.com/Zdq1Xxa7bW— Atishi (@AtishiAAP) February 24, 2025

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal also claimed the two images were removed. “This has hurt millions...

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