Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya, party’s Rajasthan chief Satish Poonia and others were allegedly stopped from visiting communal violence-hit Karauli on Wednesday. The BJP leaders were stopped at the Dausa-Karauli border but kept demanding that they be allowed to meet victims of the April 2 violence that broke out after a bike rally being carried out to mark the Hindu new year was pelted with stones.
In a video posted by news agency ANI, the protesters can be heard raising slogans against the Ashok Gehlot government.Calling it the “dictatorial government”, Surya said, “It is our constitutional right to go to Karauli. This dictatorial government is snatching our rights, which is why we are protesting.”
He said the “Section 144 is not in the place where we are at now.”He also took to Twitter and hit out at the Gehlot-led government. “Karauli riots indicate clear lawlessness in Rajasthan. The deliberate attempt to disturb Ram Navami Shobha yatra and the unwillingness of the Congress government to act against the aggressors is deplorable. BJYM will continue to protest until culprits are brought to justice,” he wrote.
