Sangh Parivar

Lucknow, Sep 7 (IANS) The cavalcade of Bhartiya Janta Party’s (BJP)
MP, Yogi Adityanath, was attacked Sunday in Azamgarh district in Uttar
Pradesh, the police said. No one was injured in the
incident.Adityanath, an MP from the Sadar Seat of Gorakhpur, who also
heads the Hindu Maha Sabha and Hindu Yuva Vahini, was in the district
to attend a seminar on terrorism when the cars in his cavalcade were
stoned.

“The incident took place at around 1:30 p.m. and besides throwing
stones, few shots were also fired in the air,” a police officer,
preferring anonymity, told IANS.

No one was injured in the incident and the situation in the area was reported to be “tense but under control”.

“Those accompanying the MP also resorted to retaliatory action but the situation was managed by the police,” he added.

Yogi, who apart from being the party MP from Gorakhpur town, is the
founder chief of Hindu Vahini, a hardliner Hindu fundamentalist
organization that commands a large following in major parts of eastern
Uttar Pradesh.

Violence erupted earlier during the day as
Muslims pelted stones at slogan-shouting youths riding through a Muslim
dominated locality on about 150 motorcycles.

Sporting saffron
outfits and raising high-pitch pro-Hindutva slogans, they were
accompanying a convoy of Yogi Adityanath who was on his way to address
an "anti-terrorism" rally at the DAV college in Azamgarh, about 350 km
from here.

Significantly, the rally was titled "Atankwad Virodhi
Hindu Chetna rally" (anti terrorism Hindu awakening rally), where the
BJP MP left no stone unturned to provoke a communal clash by making
sweeping anti-Muslim remarks.

And the slogans that rent the air
included, "Baccha-Bachcha Ram ka, Janmbhoomi ke kaam ka" (Every child
is a child of Ram and his duty is to serve the birth place of Ram) and
"Jis Hindu ka khoon na khaula, khoon nahin woh paani hai" (Any Hindu
whose blood does not boil, does not have blood but water running in his
veins). (What is anti-Muslim in these slogans?
These slogans are nothing but the truth and there is no reason to
trigger communal violence due to these slogans?)

Just as Adityanath's motorcade moved out of the locality, some stones were hurled at the motor-bikes.

"Retaliation
followed and soon the violence escalated from both sides with some
people even opening fire and also resorting to arson," Brij Lal,
state's additional director general of police, told IANS here.

"The
body of a youth was discovered inside a Bolero jeep, abandoned in the
area, together with a completely charred Maruti car," Lal said.

He, however, added: "But we are still trying to ascertain whether this killing was connected to the communal flare-up or not."

While
heavy police deployments were made in the communally sensitive town to
prevent any recurrence of violence, Yogi Adityanath left the town with
his huge entourage, though not without a warning to "teach a lesson" to
those who attempted to disrupt his rally.

Earlier, he was not
prepared to leave the town and had even gone to the extent of
threatening to "burn down Azamgarh" if those involved in disrupting his
programme were not arrested immediately.

On the intervention of administrative and police officials, he agreed to move out.

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