Social networking site Twitter was allegedly used to threaten Haryana Minister Anil Vij.
The Minister, who was recently involved in a spat with a woman IPS officer, on Wednesday received a ‘life threat’, but the outspoken BJP leader remained unfazed saying he cared little about such threats.
When mediapersons asked Vij about a person sending him a threatening message on Twitter over his spat with Superintendent of Police (Fatehabad) Sangeeta Kalia, the Minister said he got to know about it through the media only.
“I have learnt about this through the media...I don’t care about such threats. No threat can stop me from doing what is right,” he told reporters. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Ambala Surender Pal Singh said the matter had come to the notice of the police. “The police would take the required precautionary measures in this regard and Anil Vij would be provided additional security if required,” he said.
The Minister had on last Thursday stormed out of a meeting of the District Grievances and Public Relations Committee after the police officer refused to follow his order to leave the venue following heated exchanges between them.
Former Haryana Congress president and senior leader Phool Chand Mullana on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the state governor demanding Vij’s removal for allegedly using uncivilised language against the woman officer.
“While all these things were happening, now this incident came to fore in which a Dalit lady IPS officer was badly treated by a senior Haryana Minister.
“Asking a lady officer to get out of the meeting and virtually threaten her in the presence of officials of civil and police administration and members of the public, besides others, is highly condemnable,” Mullana said.
The Congress leader demanded that Vij should resign and if he fails to do so on his own then he should be sacked. “These things cannot be tolerated. Insulting a woman IPS officer, who is also from the Dalit community, is just too much,” he said, adding that the Khattar Government was “insensitive” towards Dalits.