Security has been further strengthened in Agra after Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leaders allegedly tried to give killing of their city vice-president a communal colour besides demanding to increase the compensation to Rs 45lakh, equal to what given in the case of lynching it Dadri.
Additional companies of police and Rapid Action Force teams have been deployed in Mantola and Nai ki Mandi areas, official sources said.
BJP, VHP and Bajrang Dal leaders allegedly made inflammatory speeches on Sunday at a condolence meeting for 50-year-old Arun Mahaur, VHP’s city vice president who was shot dead on last Thursday morning.
A close vigil is being kept on the activities of BJP leaders as well as members of other saffron outfits like Bajrang Dal, the sources said.
Sources said that after the district authorities refused permission for a condolence meeting in Mantola area at the residence of Mahaur, the BJP shifted the venue to Jaipur House colony, Ramlila ground where Sadhvi Prachi, and some other senior BJP leaders long with local MlAs of the party were present. leaders of the Hindu outfits have demanded firm action against suspects indulging in cow slaughtering, and raising of compensation for the family of the deceased.
The state government has announced Rs 15 lakh for the family, but BJP leaders were not satified and said that the Dadri lynching victim’s kin were given Rs 45 lakh, a house and job. Sources said that the district authorities have now written to the state government to increase the relief.