A BJP delegation, led by Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, was stopped en route to the violence-hit Karauli town on Wednesday. Mr. Surya and BJP’s Rajasthan president Satish Poonia, accompanied by hundreds of party workers, were on the way to meet the victims of communal violence on April 2.
The police stopped them at the Dausa-Karauli border and detained Mr. Surya, Mr. Poonia and other party workers. As the BJP leaders kept demanding that they be allowed to visit Karauli, they were taken into a bus and dispersed at a distance.
Police said the action was taken under Section 129 (dispersal of assembly by use of civil force) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Mr. Surya, who is also national president of the BJP’s youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, arrived in Jaipur early on Wednesday morning and met a youth, Amit, who was injured in the violence and is recovering at the Sawai Man Singh Government Hospital in Jaipur.
