The police have registered an FIR on charges of rioting, criminal intimidation, including against unidentified BJP employees. It was registered after a complaint from a BKU member.
Police personnel patrol the Ghazipur border after a clash between BJP workers and protesting farmers on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)
Uttar Pradesh police launched a case against nameless leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Thursday alleged attack on protesting farmers on the border with Ghazipur. The FIR was registered following a complaint from members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union.
The FIR has been registered under sections of India’s Criminal Code relating to civil unrest, voluntary injury and criminal intimidation, among other things.
In the ad, the farmers’ organization claims that large numbers of BJP employees and supporters armed with sticks and weapons stormed into their protest site at around 10.30 a.m.
It was alleged that BJP workers / supporters came near the podium of the protest area, made noise and verbally abused the protesting farmers. “In front of the police, they started beating peacefully protesting farmers,” the ad said.
The Bharatiya Kisan union has asked the police to take strict action against the culprits.
The FIR versus BJP leaders comes a day after nearly 200 unidentified BKU members were posted after a clash between BJP staff and protesting farmers on the Ghazipur border in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
The FIR was registered under Sections 147, 148, 223, 352, 427 and 506 of the Indian Criminal Code upon complaint of the newly appointed BJP General Secretary Amit Valmiki. He filed his report with the police in Kaushambi.
While Valmiki in his complaint alleged that BKU workers vandalized vehicles and hurled casteist insults during a “welcome train”, the farmers said the episode was a conspiracy by the ruling BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to quell their seven-month-old protest the center’s controversial agricultural laws.
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