The UP unit of Bharatiya Janata party has alleged that police were persecuting party workers in Mainpuri on the directions of the local ruling party leaders and said that this partisan attitude could force the BJP to intensify its agitation.
“The local police know the people behind Mainpuri violence are but it has purposely arrested BJP workers to conceal its inefficiency,” BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said on Monday. He said there was an attempt to create a political divide. Directives have been issued to harass BJP workers. “The police know who the people behind Mainpuri violence are. But it is not interested in arresting them,” he said. On Monday morning Mainpuri police arrested former BJP MlAs including Ram Naresh Agnohotri, Ashok Chauhan, Narendra Singh rathore, Jaiveer Singh and BJP district president Alok Gupta.