BJP on Thursday staged demonstrations across Uttar Pradesh to protest what it called "the Jungle Raj" in the State following the brutal gangrape of a mother and her teenaged daughter on a national highway near Bulandshahr.
Raising the slogan Maa Beti ke samman mein, BJP maidan mein, party workers staged protests in several parts of the State, including Varanasi, Ghaziabad and capital lucknow.
BJP national vice-president Dinesh Sharma and state general-secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak led the demonstration in lucknow and Varanasi, respectively.
A delegation led by BJP State chief Keshav Prasad Maurya submitted a memoradum to Governor Ram Naik demanding a CBI inquiry into the gangrape case. They also sought action against State Cabinet Minister
Azam Khan who had termed the incident a "political conspiracy".
The Bulandshahr gangrape reminded people of the "jungleraj" and was a blot on the law and order machinery in the state, the memorandum said and added that it brought shame to the State.