Bajrang Dal on rampage in MP over Cong linking outfit to PFI

Express News Service

BHOPAL:  Opposition to Congress’ Karnataka assembly poll manifesto likening Bajrang Dal to the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI) and promising to ban it if voted to power inside the southern state, turned violent in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday.

In neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which is dominated by the Congress, CM Bhupesh Baghel warned Bajrang Dal to not present unruly behaviour and keep away from violence. “Cadres of Bajrang Dal did create some disturbances and we restrained them. Violence in the name of Bajrang Bali is unacceptable. If required, we might think of banning the outfit,” he said.

In MP, opposing the Congress’s Karnataka poll manifesto, a gaggle of Bajrang Dal males led by native unit head Sumit Thakur stormed proper right into a multi-storeyed developing housing the Jabalpur District Congress Committee office and ransacked property there.

Local Congress employees alleged that Bajrang Dal males stormed into the developing and attacked the developing’s guard, sooner than damaging the property there, along with {the electrical} power system put in there.
The incident occurred sooner than the meeting of Jabalpur Congress Committee was to be held inside the celebration office.

The films of the incident confirmed Bajrang Dal males, holding saffron flags and shouting slogans storming into the developing and damaging the fibre sheds, the Congress placard bearing former celebration president Sonia Gandhi’s picture and likewise hurling stones on the glass residence home windows of the celebration office.

Former Jabalpur Congress chief Dinesh Yadav alleged that 100 Bajrang Dal males attacked the Congress office after injuring the chowkidar. “If they think we’re going to get scared by this, then they are mistaken. Will CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan act against these men, by bulldozing their houses?”

 “An FIR has been lodged at the Lordganj police station against Bajrang Dal men,” circle SP (CSP-Jabalpur Kotwali) Prabhat Shukla suggested this newspaper. “The unfortunate part of the incident is that cops present in the area didn’t act. If the CM has faith in democracy, then he should take strict action against the wrongdoers and ensure that such incidents aren’t repeated in MP,” state Congress chief Kamal Nath tweeted.

How Row erupted
In the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly polls, the Congress on Tuesday likened Bajrang Dal to the now-banned Popular Front of India and said the celebration was devoted to taking decisive movement, along with imposing a ban, on outfits spreading hatred amongst communities. 

BHOPAL:  Opposition to Congress’ Karnataka assembly poll manifesto likening Bajrang Dal to the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI) and promising to ban it if voted to power inside the southern state, turned violent in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday.

In neighbouring Chhattisgarh, which is dominated by the Congress, CM Bhupesh Baghel warned Bajrang Dal to not present unruly behaviour and keep away from violence. “Cadres of Bajrang Dal did create some disturbances and we restrained them. Violence in the name of Bajrang Bali is unacceptable. If required, we might think of banning the outfit,” he said.

In MP, opposing the Congress’s Karnataka poll manifesto, a gaggle of Bajrang Dal males led by native unit head Sumit Thakur stormed proper right into a multi-storeyed developing housing the Jabalpur District Congress Committee office and ransacked property there.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Local Congress employees alleged that Bajrang Dal males stormed into the developing and attacked the developing’s guard, sooner than damaging the property there, along with {the electrical} power system put in there.
The incident occurred sooner than the meeting of Jabalpur Congress Committee was to be held inside the celebration office.

The films of the incident confirmed Bajrang Dal males, holding saffron flags and shouting slogans storming into the developing and damaging the fibre sheds, the Congress placard bearing former celebration president Sonia Gandhi’s picture and likewise hurling stones on the glass residence home windows of the celebration office.

Former Jabalpur Congress chief Dinesh Yadav alleged that 100 Bajrang Dal males attacked the Congress office after injuring the chowkidar. “If they think we’re going to get scared by this, then they are mistaken. Will CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan act against these men, by bulldozing their houses?”

 “An FIR has been lodged at the Lordganj police station against Bajrang Dal men,” circle SP (CSP-Jabalpur Kotwali) Prabhat Shukla suggested this newspaper. “The unfortunate part of the incident is that cops present in the area didn’t act. If the CM has faith in democracy, then he should take strict action against the wrongdoers and ensure that such incidents aren’t repeated in MP,” state Congress chief Kamal Nath tweeted.

How Row erupted
In the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly polls, the Congress on Tuesday likened Bajrang Dal to the now-banned Popular Front of India and said the celebration was devoted to taking decisive movement, along with imposing a ban, on outfits spreading hatred amongst communities.