Some BJP leaders trying to create rift in alliance: Apna Dal (S)
VARANASI: After around 20 BHU students surrounded Union minister Anupriya Patel’s vehicle and raised slogans on Monday, Apna Dal (S) president Ashish Singh Patel said some of the BJP leaders in the state are ignoring the alliance partner and creating a hurdle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mission 2019 (Lok Sabha elections).
Alleging that the security breach was a conspiracy to create a rift in the BJP-Apna Dal(S) alliance, he addressed a press conference at the Apna Dal (S) office in Mirzapur.
The Union minister of state for health and family welfare was coming out of the LD Guest House, BHU, on Monday morning when a group of students surrounded her vehicle and raised slogans demanding that amendments in the SC/ST Act be withdrawn.
Ashish Singh said, “We feel that the security breach is a part of a conspiracy. A few senior leaders of the BJP are ignoring Apna Dal (S). They don’t want Apna Dal (S) patron Anupriya Patel to work under the leadership of BJP president Amit Shah. These leaders are trying to create hurdles in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mission 2019.”
He went on to say, “As the
PATEL ALLEGED THAT STUDENTS FORCIBLY OPENED THE DOOR OF ANUPRIYA’S CARAND TRIED TO MISBEHAVE WITH THE MINISTER
Union minister Anupriya and I got into the vehicle at the LD guest house, Banaras Hindu University, to leave for Mirzapur, at least 20 persons started raising slogans in front of our vehicle. They shouted slogans against PM Modi and Patel. The minister and her security personnel pushed them away.”
Patel further alleged that the protestors forcefully opened the door of her vehicle and tried to misbehave with the minister even as the police personnel were present on the spot.
“I want to know how these students reached the LD guest house. Where were the security personnel and the protocol officer, and why were proper security arrangements not in place?”
He further said that as a woman her security should be taken care of, especially since this was the second security breach in the last few months. Earlier, her security was breached on the way to Lal Bahadur Shashtri International Airport, Varanasi.