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Following protests by members of the local Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu groups, Meerut Police on Saturday released two newly elected BJP councilors who were arrested in connection with the exchange of blows with the All India Muslim Federation council members during the swearing-in ceremony. to the Municipal Corporation on Friday.
BJP members and members of a Hindu congregation protested outside Chandra Shekhar Azad University, where the ceremony was taking place, after which the council members were released by the police.
“We appeal to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to look into the matter because Meerut Police has arrested two companies for objecting to the boycott organized by eleven AIMIM members when ‘Vande Matram’ was being recited by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Lakshmikant Bajpai and Meerut MP Rajendra Agarwal,” he said. BJP Business Unit Chief, Vineet Sharda.
The BJP leaders also lodged a complaint, but the police took no action against the AIMIM workers. “We will take up the matter with the senior officials,” said BJP’s Meerut unit chief, Mukesh Singhal.
Chief Inspector of Police Rohit Singh Sagwan said, “They were arrested following a complaint made by the AIMIM workers. They have now been released, but we are investigating and will take action against those who are found guilty.”
Police said members of the Bharatiya Janata Party and AIMIM clashed following a row over the recitation of “Vande Matram” during the swearing-in ceremony. After that, all 11 council members from AIMIM and three from Azad Samaj Party boycotted the ceremony but later they were persuaded by senior police officials and administrative officials to attend the ceremony, police said.
Police said AIMIM and Azad Samaj Party members later filed a complaint at the police medical station against their BJP counterparts accusing them of making unnecessary noise to spoil the ceremony.
The national song was recited at the beginning of the ceremony. But it was recited incorrectly as Laxmikant Bajpai and Rajendra Kumar Agarwal raised an objection and requested that the song be recited again. We objected and asked them to recite the national anthem instead. Pawan Gurjar, head of the Meerut unit of the Azad Samaj Party, said, “This has provoked the BJP members and they attacked us.
The patriotic song was said wrong, so we decided to recite it on our own. When Rajendra Agarwal and I started reciting the patriotic song, they objected to it, infuriating our members. The AIMIM and Azad advisors walked out of the hall in protest but we asked the officials to call them back,” Bajpai said.
Imran Ansari, head of AIMIM’s Meerut Unit, said, “Our party members did not oppose the national song and it was recited at the beginning of the programme, but we opposed it being played again. We said the program should end with the national anthem but the BJP members turned violent and attacked us.”
“It is unfortunate that the BJP members deliberately created the situation to attract the limelight. We believe in the constitution and abide by the law of the country,” said Faheem Ahmed, one of the leaders of AIMIM.
Meerut District Magistrate Dipak Meena said, “There was chaos for some time, but we got the situation under control. Some AIMIM members boycotted the ceremony, but we persuaded them to come back to the programme.”
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