1 dead, 7 arrested in Sambhajinagar clashes; MVA targets BJP for riots on Ram Navami
The Hindu
dead, 7 arrested in Sambhajinagar clashes
One man who was injured in the police firing after a riot-like situation prevailed on Thursday in Maharashtra’s Sambhajinagar city (formerly Aurangabad) succumbed to his wounds on Friday, even as the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) held the ruling BJP responsible for creating a pattern of fomenting communal riots on Rama Navami day across India.
The Sambhajinagar police arrested seven persons in connection with the clashes and stone-pelting, which erupted in the wee hours of Thursday in the city’s Kiradpura locality and had led to several police vehicles being torched.
An argument between two groups had escalated into violence, with irate mobs attacking police officers as well. Around 14 police and private vehicles were damaged and 17 officers were injured, causing the police to fire at the mob, sources said.
The police have lodged an FIR for arson and rioting against 500 people.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (Uddhav) MP Sanjay Raut accused the BJP of deliberately creating riots in the State as well as in other States on the occasion of Rama Navami, with a view to assert that their ‘Hindutva’ was of a hardline nature.
“The violence on Thursday was clearly State-sponsored and an attempt on the part of the State government to stop the MVA from holding its rally in Sambhajinagar,” Mr. Raut alleged.
Mr. Raut further said that the BJP had planned to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election in an “atmosphere of fear and dread”, after having fomented such riots.
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