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Advani has no right to rule: Kanshi

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Kanshi Ram today accused Union Home Minister Lal Kishinchand Advani of misleading the Lok Sabha about the alleged police atrocities on a dalit rally organised in New Delhi yesterday.

In a vitriolic attack on Advani at a hurriedly called media conference in New Delhi, the BSP chief went to the extent of calling him a sharnarthi (refugee) from Pakistan. He had no moral authority to rule over 'original inhabitants' of the country, the BSP chief said.

Alleging that Advani's statement was a 'bundle of lies', Kanshi Ram said the BSP activists did not pelt a single stone. When the police did not allow the BSP workers to march to Jantar Mantar on the earlier assigned route, he himself went to join the peaceful march, he said.

He said the police continued to insist that the route be changed, but it was not possible at the eleventh hour. At this juncture, the police arrested him and resorted to unprovoked caning and firing in air, he said

But instead of giving a true picture in the House, Advani chose to misguide MPs by narrating a 'false sequence of events', he alleged.

The home minister yesterday told the Lok Sabha that BSP workers went berserk, broke two police booths and pelted stones compelling the police to use force to quell the mob.

UNI

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