BJP alleges that the two FIRs filed by the EC is part of a conspiracy by the opposition to single out the party which is gaining in popularity.
LUCKNOW: BJP president Rajnath Singh along with leader of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh assembly Lalji Tandon, will seek arrest here today in connection with the FIR registered against them in the CD case.
The party is also holding a country-wide ‘Jan Akrosh rally’ today to protest the role of the Election Commission by lodging an FIR against the party president, which they feel amounts to targeting the BJP.
A horde of senior leaders, including former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Yashwant Sinha, along with state leadership will accompany Singh to the Hazaratganj police station for his arrest.
Addressing a press conference, BJP vice-president Yashwant Sinha said the decision to offer arrest by its national president is a manifestation of its anguish over the entire series of events in the CD issue. “Rajnath Singh and Lalji Tandon will give their arrests in the afternoon after a meeting at the party headquarters and will not seek interim bail in the case,” he said.
Sinha alleged the lodging of the two FIRs was a conspiracy by the opposition to ‘single out’ the BJP as they are finding it hard to contain the popularity of the party throughout the country. “These pseudo-secular parties are indulging in minority communalism only for the vested political interests over the vote-bank diplomacy,” he said.
Meanwhile, the EC has sought the BJP view over the CD and party leaders Mukhatar Abbas Naqvi and Ravishanker Prasad have been deputed to place their views before the EC.
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