BJP calls Bharatpur bandh tomorrow in row over CBI probe

Rajasthan state BJP has issued a call for 'Bharatpur bandh' tomorrow in protest against notices issued by CBI to four office-bearers and a party MLA for interrogation in connection with the 2011 Gopalgarh communal violence case.
State BJP leaders here alleged that the ruling Congress was using CBI to serve its political ends after the opposition party's members were included among the 47 persons who were yesterday served with notices by CBI.
Anita Singh, the BJP MLA from Nagar constituency in Bharatpur, has been summoned for interrogation but her party members alleged that CBI would arrest her as soon as she reported to them after four of those issued with notices were arrested when they met CBI officials in Bharatpur yesterday.

"We apprehend that Anita Singh... Would also be arrested along with four other party functionaries when they visit CBI," said party vice-president Arun Chaturvedi. He was talking at a joint press conference here today attended by sitting BJP MLAs Dr Digamber Singh and RS Rathore.
Ten people from the Mev Muslim community were killed and a few others injured in clashes between the former and members of the Gujjar community over a land-related dispute in Bharatpur's district Gopalgarh on September 14, 2011.
Kama Congress MLA and the party's state parliamentary secretary Zahida Khan, too, received the CBI notice for interrogation.

Last year a special CBI court had directed the agency to investigate the alleged role of the Nagar and Kama MLAs and two other leaders of a particular community in fomenting the communal violence.
Reacting against the CBI notice to their party colleagues, Chaturvedi said: "BJP has decided to fight from road to court against the Congress government's political conspiracy by using CBI to taint BJP leaders and workers."
If CBI did not stop its unwanted and deliberate excesses, the party would launch a major agitation in the state, he added.