After a lathicharge at Birbhum district, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader Yogesh Varshney has announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh for anyone who “brings West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s head to him”. The lathicharge was done to disperse a rally where slogans of “Jai Sri Ram” on Hanuman Jayanti were being raised.
“Those who behead and bring West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee head, I will give that person Rs 11 lakh,” he said. The BJYM leader also alleged that the West Bengal Chief Minister never allows Saraswati Puja, fairs during Ram Navami and during Hanuman Jayanti procession.
“People were lathi charged and brutally beaten up. Mamata government beats up people. If someone was wearing a red shirt or a red pant, they were beaten up brutally by the police. I don’t understand…She organises Iftar party and always supports Muslims. I want to ask her are Hindus not human?,” BJYM leader Yogesh Varshney asked.
Suri Police had resorted to the use of batons to disperse a rally which shouted slogans in praise of “Shri Ram” in Birbhum in West Bengal. The police had set up an iron barrier which those in procession tried to break, prompting the law-enforcers to make a lathicharge. Police had on Sunday forewarned the Bir Hanuman Jayanti organisers that it would not allow them to hold any rally or meeting at Suri on Tuesday.
The organisers requested and assured the police that they would not carry arms. However, the police did not move from its stand and charged on.
At another place on the outskirts of Suri, thousands of people had ignored a police ban to participate in a rally taken out under the aegis of an organisation observing Hanuman Jayanti.
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West Bengal general secretary of BJP Sayantan Basu had on Tuesday alleged that “the district administration at first had accorded permission, but later withdrew it on order of the TMC bosses.”
