Activist Swami Agnivesh roughed up outside BJP HQs, files complaint

Activist Swami Agnivesh roughed up outside BJP HQs, files complaint

New Delhi, Aug 17: Social activist Swami Agnivesh was on Friday abused and thrashed outside the BJP headquarters when he went there to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose body was lying in state for people to pay homage.

Soon after Agnivesh, 79, went to the party office on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg here, a group of persons started raising slogans against him, asking him to go back.

News channels showed footage of Avnivesh, a former Janata Party MP and a prominent social activist known for his work against bonded labour, running and being chased by a group of people, believed to be Bharatiya Janata Party workers, who later beat him up. Delhi Police then whisked him away to safety in a van.

Supporters of Agnivesh later gave a complaint against around 20 persons at the Parliament Street police station and demanded security for him.

“When he reached outside the BJP headquarters, a group of BJP workers stopped him and started pushing him back. They prevented him from entering the party office and even tried to remove his turban,” Agnivesh’s associate Vishnu Paul said in his complaint. (IANS)

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