The police on Tuesday have arrested activists of a right-wing organisation when they were heading to a college run by a Catholic organisation here to perform `aarti' of Bharat Mata.
Superintendent of Police Vineet Kapoor said that defying the district magistrate's order, the Vishwa Sanatan Sangh leader Updesh Rana had announced that he will perform aarti of Bharat Mata (`Mother India') inside Saint Mary's College.
"We arrested Rana when he was entering the town. It was a preventive arrest. Besides, we have arrested 29 activists of the outfit in Bhopal and Vidisha on their way to the college,” Kapoor added. The college had moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court recently, seeking security.
On January 4, activists of right-wing organisations created ruckus after they were allegedly not allowed to perform aarti of a portrait of Bharat Mata (which they were carrying) on the college premises.