State BJP likens ABVP stir with JP’s agitation in 1974
Patna: The state BJP on Thursday likened the agitation of ABVP members on the day with the JP-led students' movement in the state in 1974 with countrywide ramifications. They also charged the Nitish Kumar government with pursuing a "Hitler-like policy".
Although the ABVP, which is the student's wing of the RSS, had announced demonstration and gherao of the assembly a fortnight ago, the nature of their agitation took police by surprise.
The major flashpoint occurred at R-Block, and soon it spilled over to the outer gate of the state assembly as around a dozen ABVP members made a bid to enter the campus of the assembly which is guarded by two security rings. Police personnel swooped on the ABVP members to foil their efforts to break the first security ring.
Police also resorted to lathicharge. One policeman's baton missed to hit BJP MLA Sanjay Sarawagi who along with others had come to meet the ABVP members. Later, around half a dozen ABVP members were whisked away to PMCH in a waiting ambulance.
"Everything appears to have been pre-planned. Even the din created by the BJP members inside the state assembly followed a pattern," said water resources department minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary. He said the government has the footage of what happened at the R-Block crossing and near the assembly gate. "If need be, we can bring it in public domain," he said.
Former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, however, described the incidents as symptom of the state government's autocratic way of functioning. The injured students have not been provided adequate treatment, he alleged.
The major flashpoint occurred at R-Block, and soon it spilled over to the outer gate of the state assembly as around a dozen ABVP members made a bid to enter the campus of the assembly which is guarded by two security rings. Police personnel swooped on the ABVP members to foil their efforts to break the first security ring.
Police also resorted to lathicharge. One policeman's baton missed to hit BJP MLA Sanjay Sarawagi who along with others had come to meet the ABVP members. Later, around half a dozen ABVP members were whisked away to PMCH in a waiting ambulance.
"Everything appears to have been pre-planned. Even the din created by the BJP members inside the state assembly followed a pattern," said water resources department minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary. He said the government has the footage of what happened at the R-Block crossing and near the assembly gate. "If need be, we can bring it in public domain," he said.
Former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, however, described the incidents as symptom of the state government's autocratic way of functioning. The injured students have not been provided adequate treatment, he alleged.
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