Vidisha continued under curfew on the second day on Monday after violent clashes erupted following the murder of a Bajrang Dal leader Deepak Kushwaha on Saturday. Though no untoward incidence was reported on Monday, police has till now arrested about twenty persons in connection with murder and rioting.
Vidisha collector Anil Suchari while talking to The Pioneer said that the situation in the riot bound town is under control. “Though no untoward incidence took place today and the situation is under control but no relaxation in curfew was provided. We would review the situation tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 7 am and after that we would decide to give any relaxation in the curfew,” Suchari said.
Suchari furthers aid that the administration acted strongly and successfully controlled the riots. Police teams are deployed and sector magistrates have been appointed to keep an eye over the situation and hopefully the city would return to normalcy soon, he added.
Samajwadi Party (SP) Rajya Sabha MP and Vidisha resident Choudhary Munawwar Saleem said, “The social fabric of the city remained united, after incidences of Sunday the people of majority community came out with full might to stop the efforts being made to defame the city. I condemn the violence by the people who were certainly outsiders as we do not identify any locals in the crowd that was on rampage. ”
Saleem further said that but in any case the blot of communalism that was washed by hard work of the people of the city after working for communal harmony for years has been damaged and this time the city has been defamed internationally because of two reasons, one it is the parliamentary constituency of external Affairs Minister of the country Sushma Swaraj and second the assembly constituency of chief minister of the state Shivraj Singh Chouhan also comes in this parliamentary constituency.