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Jayant tweets video clip, stirs row
Video shows a BJP worker moving along with police vehicles in his private car and carrying a baton allegedly to control a crowd marching against CAA
Video shows a BJP worker moving along with police vehicles in his private car and carrying a baton allegedly to control a crowd marching against CAA
MEERUT RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary has stirred a fresh controversy by tweeting a video clip that shows a BJP worker moving along with police vehicles in his private car and carrying a baton allegedly to control a crowd marching against CAA.
The BJP worker has been identified as Maninder Vihan Bharala.
Jayant Chaudhary also posted a poster featuring Bharala with newly elected BJP district president of Meerut Anuj Rathi. In the poster, Vihan is mentioned as former zila mantri of BJP’s Yuva Morcha (Meerut).
“Was this BJP official a police ‘mitra’…did this vehicle belong to the police… were these staff for crowd control or to instigate them,” questioned Chaudhary.
The video shows a convoy of police vehicles advancing towards a mob of protesters approaching from the opposite side. A private vehicle bearing a poster of Lord Hanuman is also a part of this convoy.
This vehicle stops and two persons (Bharala and another person) are seen coming out of it carrying fibre baton. Meanwhile, someone calls them and one of the persons looks towards the caller who has been identified as Maninder Vihan Bharala. His photo also featured in a poster welcoming newly elected BJP district president Anuj Rathi.
“The claim is baseless. We are busy contacting people to make them aware of the provisions of Citizenship Law. But to say that the BJP cadres are donning police roles to contain anti-CAA protest is mischievous propaganda. Under BJP rule, the administration is free unlike in previous governments when the police functioning was compromised,” said BJP leader Sunil Bharala who is the chairperson of the Labour Welfare Council (Shramik Kalyan Board).
Bharala’s post is equivalent to that of a minister in UP government.
On being contacted, Rathi said: “I have not seen any such video, therefore can’t comment on it. People are free to display their pictures with anyone. Let me see the video.”
IG (Meerut range) Alok Singh said he also has not come across such a video and the police would respond if any such video existed.
