Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav expelled four workers following their arrest for vandalizing a car with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s poster and a Bharatiya Janata Party flag on it in Kanpur.
The Kanpur police have charged the SP workers of plotting to create violence and rioting on the day the prime minister visited Kanpur.
Modi was in Kanpur Nagar to inaugurate the completed section of the Metro Rail and the Bina-Panki multi-product pipeline project on Tuesday. He also addressed the 54th convocation function of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
The four arrested were identified as Mulayam Singh Youth Brigade spokesperson Sukant Sharma, secretary of SP students’ body Sachin Kesharwani, city secretary of SP youth brigade Abhishek Rawat and Nitesh Kumar.
An FIR was registered against 8-10 persons after Samajwadi Party workers allegedly went on a rampage, following the departure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy in Kanpur Nagar on Tuesday. They allegedly vandalised a car with the prime minister’s poster on it.
Soon after the incident, the BJP alleged that Samajwadi Party workers vandalised the car and even tried to torch it.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi had warned that SP’s ‘red cap’ means danger and red alert and it is coming true,” a BJP spokesman said.