BJP’s Kanth protest gets support from its Hindu outfits

The decision follows BJP’s announcement that all party MPs, MLAs and other officer-bearers of western UP region will reach Kanth police station to lodge FIR against the SSP while simultaneously holding demonstrations in other districts barring Moradabad, where the district administration has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC. BJP leaders have alleged that the SSP had acted as “a Samajwadi Party loyalist” and arrested those named in the FIRs “even before the violence erupted”.

“ABVP has the same opinion about the SSP and hence its workers in all districts will support BJP in the protest,” ABVP regional organiation secretary, UP and Uttarakhand, Dharampal Singh said.

Rakesh Verma, Awadh head of Bajrang Dal, said its workers, too, will support BJP agitation by reaching in large numbers in the respective districts. He said the message has already been communicated to all the district units.

To deal with the situation, DIG Moradabad range Gulab Singh said while the Section 144 is already in place, “heavy police and paramilitary force have been deployed to maintain law and order”.