New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Delhi BJP president Harsh Malhotra on Tuesday defended the party's proposed "Save Democracy - Remove Anarchy Padyatra" amid opposition from the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), accusing them of double standards over protests and road blockades in the national capital.

"Those who have held Delhi's businesses and the general public hostage by blocking the city's roads for weeks, at times in the name of students and at times in the name of removing the Election Commissioner, are today opposing a symbolic two-hour padyatra. This is not opposition; it is hypocrisy," Malhotra said in a statement.

Drawing a distinction between the BJP's proposed march and protests by opposition parties, he said the BJP's programme wo...