Three BJP leaders including two councilors arrested for assault at swearing-in ceremony

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Meerut, May 26 (Hindustan Times). AIMIM corporators were beaten up by BJP corporators for not singing Vande Mataram at the swearing-in ceremony of mayor and corporators. On the complaint of an AIMIM councillor, the police arrested two councilors and a former BJP councillor. Later, the accused councilors got bail from the police station. BJP corporators have also lodged a complaint against AIMIM corporators accusing them of insulting Vande Mataram.

The oath-taking ceremony of Municipal Corporation Mayors and Councilors was held on Friday at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Auditorium of Chaudhary Charan Singh University. Meanwhile, AIMIM councilors were singing Vande Mataram. Calling it an insult to Vande Mataram, BJP corporators created a ruckus and attacked AIMIM corporators. His video is also going viral on the internet media. District Magistrate Deepak Meena and SP City Piyush Kumar somehow handled the matter. After this, four councilors of AIMIM walked out without taking oath. Following the incident, AIMIM, Muslim League and Azad Samaj Party councilors filed a complaint alleging assault on BJP councilors at the medical station. In which a case of attempted murder and assault was registered against three named and 15 unknown people.

Acting police arrested BJP corporator Rajiv Gupta Kale, Uttam Saini and former corporator Anshul Gupta accused of the attack. After this, the three leaders were released on bail from the police station. BJP councilors also staged a protest at the medical station accusing AIMIM councilors of insulting Vande Matarat.

BJP city president Mukesh Singhal says that some councilors sat during Vande Mataram. When BJP leaders opposed this, they were threatened with death. We will bail out our councillors.

AIMIM Metropolitan President Imran Ansari said that four councilors of AIMIM, Fazal Karim from Ward 71, Tahir from Ward 82, Sahid from Ward 72 and Guddi from Ward 81, Rizwan Ansari from Ward 73 of Muslim League did not take oath. Five councilors will take oath in the municipality on Saturday.