U’khand: BJP leader booked for trying to disrupt communal harmony
Pauri (Uttarakhand), Oct 6 (PTI) BJP leader Lakhpat Singh Bhandari has been booked here for allegedly trying to disrupt communal harmony with his “objectionable” remarks on ‘love jihad’, police said on Sunday. While addressing an event in Srinagar on October 2, the party’s Pauri Garhwal unit vice-president allegedly made comments warning people of a particular community to stay away from ‘love jihad’ or their “eyes would be gouged out and shops burned down”. BJP state unit media in-charge Manveer Singh Chauhan said his party does not support such statements, but attempts to spoil the atmosphere in the name of ‘love