The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh flexed its entire might and ordered the arrest of top Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders including Ashok Singhal and Praveen Togadia, apart from scores of VHP-backed saints, on Sunday.
It foiled the VHP’s “guerrilla” tactic of starting the controversial 84-Kosi Yatra despite an administrative ban while containing the potentially explosive fallouts of the arrests.
Togadia was arrested from Gola Ghat in Ayodhya where the VHP claimed it had performed a symbolic puja, while Singhal was taken into custody at Lucknow airport. Over 600 VHP workers were put under house arrest in Ayodhya alone. In all, nearly 2,100 VHP workers have been arrested across UP in the past three days.
These include former BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti, president of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Mahant Nrityagopal Das and BJP MLA Ram Chandra.
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