VHP, Bajrang Dal protest across city

Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal held protests at 23 locations in the Capital on Wednesday in response to the violence in Haryana, prompting the Delhi Police to sound an alert across the city.

- Karn Pratap Singh and Sanjeev K Jha

Some of these protests were held in north-east Delhi neighbourhoods that witnessed communal clashes in February 2020.

Police said the protests, which began at 9am, lasted until late evening. While no untoward incidents were reported from any site, the demonstrations disrupted vehicular movement and caused long traffic jams, the police added.

Special commissioner of police (law and order zone-1) Dependra Pathak said the demonstrations were taken out despite no police permission was accorded to any organisation. However, no first information reports (FIRS) were filed in connection with the protests.

Senior members of VHP and Bajrang Dal said the protests were held in response to the attack on the annual religious procession at Nalhar village in Nuh on Monday, in which six people were killed, including two members of their outfits, and injured over 60 others.