Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is already in the eye of storm for threatening to burn down Indore, has landed in another controversy by issuing open threats to government officials in a public meeting in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday.
During a public meeting in Singoli of Neemuch, Vijayvargiya said that the officers should work within their limits. “If the government officials function in an unbiased manner, we would do nothing. But if they try to become workers of Congress, act as their agent and trouble our workers then they should remember the dialogue from Sholay. When our government comes, 'tera kya hoga' (what would happen to you),” Vijayvargiya said.
He also said that he was busy with his responsibilities in West Bengal, but if the party allowed him in Madhya Pradesh, he would not let (chief minister) Kamal Nath sleep even for a day.
Vijayvargiya's statement comes at a time when the MP BJP unit is alleging that BJP workers are being targeted by the Kamal Nath government in the garb of taking action against land and other mafia in the state.
Protesting against the state government's action, the BJP general secretary had staged a dharna before the office of the Indore divisional commissioner, Akash Tripathi, on January 3. When the officer did not meet him, Vijayvargiya spoke threateningly to the police officers present, saying that if the Sangh (RSS) office bearers were not present in Indore, he would have burnt down the town. A video of the threat had gone viral.
On Sunday, Indore police registered an FIR against Vijayvargiya and 350 others for violating section 144 that is in place in Indore. Home Minister Bala Bachchan issued statement saying that action would be initiated as per rule on anyone violating the law.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath, while speaking to media on Sunday, said that the BJP should decide whether Vijayvargiya was a BJP leader or a leader of the mafias.
Meanwhile, reacting to the controversy, Congress spokesman Narendra Saluja told THE WEEK that the BJP leaders who are questioning the FIR on Vijayvargiya and other BJP workers, should first tell why are they silent on his threat to burn down Indore.
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“Don't they love the city? Also, the Congress gives an open challenge to all the BJP leaders alleging biased political action in mafia-free campaign, to name a single person who is linked to BJP, and is not a mafia, and has all the work and constructions done legally and yet, has faced action against the rules.
“But now, Vijayvargiya is threatening the government officials openly, telling them 'tera kya hoga'. People of MP saw his (Vijayvargiya's) condition during the 15 years of BJP rule, when he himself recited another Sholay dialogue 'Gabbar ne Thakur ke haath kat diye' (referring to Vijayvargiya's uneasy relation with ex-CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan),” Saluja said.
