New Delhi: Delhi's ruling AAP on Thursday threatened nationwide protests if HRD Minister Smriti Irani did not quit within three days over the discrepancies over her educational qualification.
Stepping up its attack on the BJP-led government, the Aam Aadmi Party also dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "Manmohan Singh Part II" for not speaking over Irani and other controversial issues.
AAP leader Ashutosh told the media: "Smriti Irani must resign the way (Delhi's former law minister) Jitendra Singh Tomar did."
"If action is not taken against Smriti Irani in the next 72 hours, we will hold protests all across the country."
A Delhi court has taken note of a complaint that Smriti Irani allegedly misrepresented her educational qualification in election affidavits.
Over 500 AAP workers staged a protest outside Irani's residence demanding her resignation for allegedly misleading poll authorities about her educational qualifications, police said.
The workers gathered outside Irani's residence around 11 a.m. and while staging a demonstration also demanded her immediate arrest.
After a Delhi Court on Wednesday admitted a petition challenging the academic qualifications of Irani, the Aam Aadmi Party demanded that the action meted out against former Delhi law minister Jitendra Singh Tomar should be applicable to her as well.
"She (Irani) should be arrested without any delay and she must also resign as a minister," one of the workers said.
"There was no delay in the arrest of Tomar, why is there a delay in her case?" he asked.
Following the heavy protests, security forces were deployed and barricades mounted outside the minister's residence.
"We have deputed police personnel and barricades have been mounted to maintain law and order," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijay Singh.
"We have also stationed water cannons outside the minister's house as a precautionary measure."
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