Cong flays ABVP for hooliganism
Monday, 05/08/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130805/punjab.htm#8
Chandigarh : The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) today asked the BJP to restrain activists of Akhil Bhartiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) from hooliganism. The committee condemned the violent protests held by the ABVP outside the residence of Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari and other Congress leaders.
Sukhpal Khaira, party spokesman, said the Congress was closely watching the activities of the ABVP activists. He said to protest peacefully is the democratic right of all political parties in our country but the youth wing of the BJP had been resorting to politics of confrontation recently.
He further said that while protesting outside the residence of Tewari in Ludhiana, the ABVP activists hurled abuses, threw shoes, steel plates etc. inside his house, while the Punjab Police personnel stood as mute spectators. Similarly, a few days back acid bottles and other inflammatory material was found outside the Tewari’s house in Sector 19 Chandigarh.
“We apprehend that even this act of intimidation is that of ABVP cadres. Similarly, the ABVP goons descended upon the houses of Preneet Kaur, Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa and violated all norms of a decent protest,” the Congress spokesman said.
He said it appeared that the ABVP had suddenly started resorting to such unruly behavior, after the elevation of Narendra Modi as chairman BJP campaign committee
