Shashank Singh Arya
Permission received for 6th July at Jantar Mantar 10 am to 1 pm
Applied on 23rd june, enquiry call received on 25th june. Firstly call received from a mobile number, I missed it. Then from Delhi landline. Spoke for 17 minutes. Police personnel was less interested in the nature of demonstration but rather wanted to enquire minutest details about me, educational background, work and my political background so far(as I mentioned on the application that I am an MP candidate). He said why didn’t I mention the name of the party, that I should have. I said didn’t seem relevant to me as the demonstration is not related to the party. He seemed to have been making a note of each and every point.(जिसे पुलिस की भाषा में कहते हैं, कुण्डली बनाना)।
Because he was already asking too many questions, two additional information I gave him without asking related to my political career were, that I was Delhi assembly election-incharge and I contested in front of the CM of Rajasthan Bhajan Lal Sharma which is also my home constituency ie Sanganer.
He also specifically enquired two things that wether have I given an application before for any demonstration at JM, to which I said no as its my first. Then he asked whether have I been to JM and participated in any demonstration to which I said yes twice in march april’26.
He also asked whether have I contested any elections prior to MP elections in April’24, to which I said yes and gave the above details.
He also asked which day will I be reaching Delhi, whether leave a day or night before ie on 5th or on 6th itself, if I reach on 5th then where will I be staying, I said haven’t decided yet.
He also asked my mode of transport to Delhi, by car I said no. I said by public transport ie either by train or bus, will decided later.
He also said that am I from science background ie have I done B tech etc to which I said no, then he said then what makes me an expert on this and then I told about Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta ji. He said in the era of AI and all why do we want ballot paper, I said we dont want anything, we creating awareness by showing live demo. Couldn’t complete my answer as he moved on to further questions. I forgot to ask his name and the name of the police station.