Rajasthan: BSP leaders thrashed, paraded on donkeys

Two office-bearers of the Bahujan Samaj Party had their faces blackened and were made to sit on donkeys in Jaipur on Tuesday. The video of the incident has gone viral. In an apparent response to the assault on the two BSP leaders in Jaipur, Mayawati attacked the Congress on Twitter.

Jaipur:Bahujan Samaj Party's national coordinator Ramji Gautam and former Rajasthan party in-charge Sitaram were thrashed by their own party workers, their face was blackened and they was paraded on a donkey outside party office in Jaipur.

The video of the incident has gone viral. The angry workers also garlanded them with shoes and alleged that these leaders were indulging in anti-party activities.

Ramji Gautam, a former national vice president of the BSP, had been appointed a national coordinator by Mayawati in June.

In an apparent response to the assault on the two BSP leaders in Jaipur, Mayawati attacked the Congress on Twitter.

She wrote, “The Congress first split the BSP MLAs in Rajasthan and is now attacking senior people there to hurt the movement, which is very shameful... Congress is adopting a very wrong tradition against the Ambedkarite movement, to which people can give a resounding answer.”

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