Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader was arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s car while he was visiting north Gujarat’s flood-affected Banaskantha district on Friday.
The action comes after 18 hours of night-long dharna and demonstration by Congress leaders and scores of district level supporters.
Palanpur unit BJP youth wing general secretary Jayesh Darji was arrested by the Banaskantha district police on Saturday after registering an FIR, which also names three others.
One of them is Bhagwanbhai Patel, chairman of Dhanera Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC). It is from the APMC market yard in Dhanera that the wave of protests against Rahul Gandhi started.
The police had through the night refused to take the complaint from former Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia and others till a meeting between district police and senior officers.
Jayesh Darji, Modsinh Rao,Mukesh Pragjibhai Thakkar and Bhagwandas Hajabai Patel These were abetted by other BJP workers. The motive was not only to demonstrate against Shri Rahul Gandhi, but also to physically assault him. This has been explicitly stated in the complaint, which the puppet State Police at Dhanera are refusing to register, on the behest of the State BJP Government. The Congress Party workers are sitting on a dharna and will continue to agitate against this dictatorial regime.
Congress alleged that one BJP Yuva Morcha President, Satish Jani has been identified on video and the police letting him off in broad daylight. His photographs on social media with numerous BJP Ministers and leaders prove that these are all full time BJP workers.
