Right-wing Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide should be arrested within a week for inciting the January 1 riots in Bhima-Koregaon, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar said here today.
Addressing the 'Elgar Morcha', taken out with the demand to arrest the Shiv Prathishthan founder, at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, Ambedkar said, "the BJP-led government in Maharashtra should not protect Bhide and arrest him in seven-eight days for inciting the anti-Dalit violence. The government should do its duty and not that of a court".
Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, said, "If the number two accused in the case-- Hindu Ekta Parishad leader Milin Ekbote--has been arrested, why has Bhide been let off the hook?"
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