The artists including a Frenchman who were allegedly forced to write "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" instead of a Urdu couplet on a DJB property in northeast Delhi's Shahdara by a mob, were questioned and later let off by the police after "verification".
"The police received a call about someone writing something on the wall in a foreign language. The two men were questioned only to verify why and what they were writing on the wall," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) A K Singla said today.
The incident took place on May 20 when French artist Swen Simon and Akhlaq Ahmed were painting a couplet in Urdu on a wall of the Delhi Jal Board's building in Shahdara.
"They said that they were working for a Delhi government campaign. This too was verified after talking to the concerned minister and they were let off," Singla said adding that the police ensured that no law and order issue takes place there.
However, Delhi Water minister and DJB chairman Kapil Mishra alleged that a group of RSS workers "misbehaved and forced" the artists commissioned by the AAP government to deface their own wall-writing in praise of the capital in Urdu and replaced it with words 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.
However, the RSS "vehemently" refuted the charges and said that it doesn't believe in any kind of violence or such activity.
"AAP leaders are trying to make RSS a punching bag. They are indulging in such kind of things only to divert the public attention from the utter failure of administration in Delhi," spokesman of Delhi unit of RSS said.
