The Dhenkanal unit of the BJP on Monday demanded arrest of the attackers of lalulei Seva Samabya Samiti president nominee Harash Naik soon.
Party sources said Naik was contesting for the post of president for the said Samiti in Gondia block as a BJP nominee. Some ruling party supporters allegedly scolded him in filthy languages and attacked him physically when he was returning home from the voting place on February 10. BJP members also alleged that the attackers even hindered Naik from getting admission in a hospital and from filing an FIR in the police station.
BJP district president Naresh Chandra Mohapatra, secretary Ramesh Samal, former Rajya Sabha Member Rudra Narayan Pany and Dhenkanal MlA Krushna Chandra Patra have threatened that they would take to the street if police do not arrest the accused persons soon.