Vijay Jolly, the BJP's overseas affairs convener, was on Thursday attacked by a mob here while returning after addressing a meeting of Nepal's ruling coalition partner Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist leninist.
The BJP had sent Jolly and two others, Ajit Kumar and Saurabh Gupta, to attend the convention of the CPN-UMl. According to Nepali journalist Rishi Dhamala, chairman of the Reporters Club, Kathmandu, Jolly was attacked by CPN-UMl cadres with water bottles.“Fortunately he escaped but I was hit by a bottle. later, I took him to a nearby police station and called a vehicle leave the area,” Dhamala said.
Police used batons to disperse the crowd to move Jolly and his colleagues from the area. It was not clear if Jolly was the intended target of the mob.The violence erupted after thousands of CPN-UMl supporters were kept out of the opening session.They vandalised the entrance gate and started a fire. Thousands shouted slogans against the party leadership and staged a protest against the Nepal Home Minister, who belongs to the same party.
They accused the police of high-handedness.At the venue, Jolly read out a congratulatory message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.