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Police have arrested members of the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) here on Monday, when they staged a demonstration, protesting against an India-based jewellery company for ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s Independence Day.
After a Facebook post on the company’s page, displaying its top executives cutting cake and ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s Independence Day, triggered controversy, BJP and other right wing activists were up in arms.
About 25 people, led by Athma Karthik, BJP district secretary, and Purushothman, VHP district organiser, walked in a procession from Church Road and staged the protest in front of the jewellery shop, when police arrested them.
Tension broke out and the shop downed shutters briefly as the police arrested the activists. Those arrested were released late in the evening, the police said. They shouted slogans against the company and demanded that the company be asked to shut its business in India.
Nambi Narayanan, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist, said the India-based company had no business to celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day and urged the Centre to launch a probe into the company’s links with Pakistan. The company was free to do business in any part of the world but it could not be allowed to act against the interest of India, he said.
They were protesting against a jewellery company for ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s Independence Day
