New Delhi: The controversial CD campaign has hit BJP’s image severely in Uttar Pradesh. BJP president Rajnath Singh and leader of opposition in UP assembly Lalji Tandon will offer their arrest on Monday in connection with the FIR registered against them in the CD case.
The party is also holding a countrywide ‘Jan Akrosh rally’ on Monday to protest the Election Commission’s move in the case. The party slammed EC saying that it has been trying to “single out the BJP” by lodging a named FIR against the party president.
BJP’s senior leaders, including former deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitly, Yashwant Sinha along with the state party leadership will accompany Singh to the Hazaratganj police station for offering his arrest.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, BJP Vice-president Yashwant Sinha said the decision to offer arrest by its national president, named in the FIR, is a manifestation of its anguish over the entire series of events in CD matter.
“Rajnath Singh and Lalji Tandon will give their arrests in the afternoon after a big meeting at the party headquarters and will not seek interim bail in the case,'' Sinha was quoted by PTI.
Former Union minister Sinha alleged the lodging of the two FIRs was a conspiracy by the opposition to ''single out'' the BJP as they are finding hard to contain the popularity of the party throughout the country.
''These so called psedo-secular parties are indulging in minority communalism only for the vested political interests over the vote-bank diplomacy,'' he observed.
Meanwhile, the EC has sought the BJP view over the CD and party leaders Mukhatar Abbas Naqvi and Ravishanker Prasad have been deputed to place their views at the EC headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.
With agencies inputs
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