A huge rally for NPR, NRC and CAA was taken out today in Daltonganj where hundreds of people marched on the streets shouting variety of slogans from ‘Jai Sri Ram, Vande Matram to Golee Maro Salo Ko’.
The rally was organised under the banner of Ekta Manch and the big face of the Ekta Manch Durga Johri who is a senior BJP leader said the rally has the support of the Congress and RJD men even. He even named few persons of Congress and RJD in this rally.
Johri said, “This rally is not of the BJP at all. I am here for Ekta Manch.” State secretary of BJP Manoj K Singh and Palamu district BJP president Narendra Pandey too said the BJP has nothing to do with this Wednesday rally at all and the two were not seen in the rally also.
On one provocative slogan Golee Maro Salo ko Johri said, “This is most unfortunate. It should not have been so raised. This is too bad. It should not happen at all.” Johri said a large number of people in this rally are just raising Jai Sri Ram and Vande Matram and some youths raised this kind of slogan on their own.
Johri said the mike for this rally was in the hands of senior people here and these youths were not given any access to mike as they could have gone more louder then.
Sources said this is the first big pro rally for NPR, NRC and CAA in Daltonganj as Muslims had planned an anti rally on December 26 which they postponed citing police embargo on them while the police maintained there was no embargo but the Muslims were asked to first obtain permission from the rally from the SDO Sadar here, which they did not and so the rally was not permitted.
Sources said with this pro rally a chain of anti rallies is all set to take place here.
SP Palamu Ajay Linda said police had made elaborate security arrangements and civil administration had deputed magistrates too.