"The DTC bus driver's family should be given Rs 1 crore as compensation and his next of his kin should be given a permanent job in DTC," the chief spokesperson of Congress's Delhi unit, Sharmistha Mukherjee, said at a press conference here.
"The entire incident is deplorable," she added.
A 42-year-old DTC bus driver, Ashok Kumar, was yesterday beaten to death in broad daylight allegedly by a youth after his bus grazed the latter's motorbike in the Mundka area of west Delhi.
"It is an authoritarian act. We strongly condemn it," Sharmistha, who is the daughter of President Pranab Mukherjee, said as she launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
"The circular is a reminder of draconian acts like the Vernacular Press Act 1878, Indian Press Act 1910, Indian Press Act 1931. The only difference is that these Acts were in operation during colonial rule, but we are now living in the 21st century," she said.
"The Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression guaranteed by the Constitution empowers the electors to assess and criticise shortcomings and inefficiency if we politicians don't perform after being voted to power. AAP itself has been a major critic of many other political parties and their leaders," Maken told Jung.
In a separate announcement, Sharmistha said that Congress's communication department has set up an Urdu cell for better coordination with the Urdu media.