Haryana BJP woes grow, party polls put off as Brahmin bodies rally behind state chief accused of ‘rape’

The Brahmin assemblage has held 5 akin property conferences successful arsenic galore days successful Jind territory alone, isolated from media interactions successful Hisar and Gohana.

Badoli and Haryanvi singer-composer Jai Bhagawan, who is popularly known arsenic Rocky Mittal, person been accused of gangraping and criminally intimidating a Delhi-based pistillate astatine a edifice successful Solan, Himachal Pradesh, connected July 3, 2023. They were booked connected December 13 past twelvemonth by the Himachal Pradesh Police.

Social organisations and commercialized unions person since held protests successful astatine slightest 3 districts – Jind, Bhiwani and Rohtak – demanding that the accused beryllium arrested.

“The lawsuit has brought the look and quality of the BJP successful beforehand of everyone. It seems our daughters request to beryllium saved from BJP leaders, who speech astir ‘beti bachao, beti padhao’,” Congress Rohtak MPDeepender Singh Hooda said recently.

The contented has adjacent forced the Haryana BJP to enactment disconnected its organisational polls, earlier expected to beryllium held by the extremity of January, to aft the civic polls scheduled for adjacent month.

The Brahmin community’s enactment for Badoli is simply a effect to the attacks connected him. “The FIR is portion of a conspiracy. We unitedly basal by him and question a just probe. If immoderate enactment is taken against him without a probe, our assemblage volition powerfully reason it and deed the streets,” Hisar territory Brahman Sabha president Rajkumar Bhardwaj said.

In Gohana, Brahmin Samaj Kalyan Samiti caput Rajkumar Fauji said an MP was implicated successful a akin lawsuit six months agone and it was not wide wherefore oregon who had implicated Badoli. “He is simply a idiosyncratic who does not adjacent fume a beedi. This happened truthful arsenic to resistance him down arsenic helium has a agleam future. The CBI should probe the matter,” helium said.

In the Brahmin Dharamshala of Jind, erstwhile Kandela sarpanch Daleep Bhardwaj sought to disregard the case, saying “every girl is not Sita oregon Savitri”.

Badoli had replaced Saini arsenic Haryana BJP main successful July past year, aft his unsuccessful bid successful the Lok Sabha polls from Sonipat, losing to the Congress’s Satpal Brahmchari.

Among the enactment leaders who person sought Badoli’s resignation is elder BJP person and authorities Transport Minister Anil Vij, who said this was needed to “maintain the sanctity of the party”. Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Barla said the enactment enactment volition instrumentality an “appropriate decision”.

Dismissing the charges, Badoli has said: “This is simply a fake FIR, perchance owed to the coming Delhi Assembly elections.” His woman Geeta Kaushik has demanded a CBI probe.