Rajnath to offer arrest tomorrow: BJP to hold Jan Akrosh rally

Lucknow, Apr 8 (UNI) BJP president Rajnath Singh along with leader of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh assembly Lalji Tandon will offer their arrest here tomorrow in connection with the FIR registered against them in the CD case.

The party is also holding a country-wide ''Jan Akrosh rally'' tomorrow to protest the role of the Election Commission (EC) by lodging a named FIR against the party president to single out the BJP.

A horde of senior leaders, including former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu, Mrs Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitly, Yashwant Sinha along with the state party leadership will accompany Mr Singh to the Hazaratganj police station for offering his arrest.

Addressing a press conference here, BJP Vice-president Yashwant Sinha said the decision to offer arrest by its national president, named in the FIR, is a manifestation of its anguish over the entire series of events in CD matter.

''Mr Rajnath Singh and Mr Lalji Tandon will give their arrests in the afternoon after a big meeting at the party headquarters and will not seek interim bail in the case,'' he disclosed.

Former Union minister Mr Sinha alleged the lodging of the two FIRs was a conspiracy by the opposition to ''single out'' the BJP as they are finding hard to contain the popularity of the party throughout the country.

''These so called psedo-secular parties are indulging in minority communalism only for the vested political interests over the vote-bank diplomacy,'' he said.

Meanwhile, the EC has sought the BJP view over the CD and party leaders Mukhatar Abbas Naqvi and Ravishanker Prasad have been deputed to place their views at the EC headquarters in New Delhi tomorrow.

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