BJP, RSS workers enter into scuffle with police; SSP promises action against cops
India TV NewsSeveral workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the RSS indulged into a scuffle with policemen on Saturday. According to the officials, the incident was reported from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, where the scuffle took place after some policemen allegedly misbehaved with an RSS Zila Pracharak, Manoj Kumar when he was taking a bath at a bathing venue of the Yamuna river in the Kumbh fair of Vrindavan, they said. Following the incident local BJP activists, went on dharma in protest against the alleged misbehaviour of the policemen with them, necessitating the intervention of senior administrative and police officials to calm them. The RSS activists lifted the dharna only after Mathura’s Senior Superintendent of Police Gaurav Grover, in presence of District Magistrate Navneet Singh Chahal, promised action against the erring policemen. Following the incident, the local Congress leaders and workers accused the BJP and RSS activists of attacking policemen, including the area SHO, and demanded action against them.