BJP gen secy attempts dharna for Baba at MG Marg, escorted away

GANGTOK, 06 June: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sikkim unit general secretary Padam Sharma, arrived at the Gandhi statue enclave at MG Marg this morning and sat down on a dharna with a placard protesting the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s satyagrah in New Delhi last night. He was there barely 20 minutes when a team from the Sadar Police Station escorted him away, reminding him that neither did he have permission, nor were such demonstrations allowed at the MG Marg.
Speaking to media persons earlier, Mr. Sharma explained that he was sitting on a dharna under the central BJP’s initiative in response to the “atrocities” committed against Baba Ramdev and his followers by the Delhi police.
“As a lay person of the civil society, beating up of sadhus and sants, ladies and children who were standing up against corruption is not acceptable,” he said.
“The power scam, the land acquisition in Sikkim, corruption in India and Sikkim is reaching beyond imagination and all this has to stop,” he said and added that since the central BJP leaders were sitting on a dharna at Rajghat in New Delhi, so all the States were following in the footsteps of their leaders.