From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Aug 17: State BJP Chief B S Yeddyurappa has strongly condemned the police lathi-charge on the ABVP activists, who were on a peaceful demonstration, in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Yeddyurappa, who is also the Shimoga BJP MP, said it was a cruel irony that the police have resorted to lathi-charge on "patriotic students" of ABVP, who were shouting nationalistic slogans, but let off as well as escorted to safety the Kashmiri youths who shouted anti-national slogans at United Theological College on Saturday.

The police have filed FIR against Amnesty International.

"I urge the police to identify the individuals who shouted anti national slogans and file FIR against them," Yeddyurappa said.

In a press statement, Yeddyurappa said@ "ABVP is right in all respects to protest against anti-national elements. They were protesting peacefully. The students had not taken law into their hands. Resorting to lathi charge was wrong. The Police should immediately tender an unconditional and unqualified apology."

Expressing solidarity with the ABVP, he said BJP, along with all right thinking people and nationalist forces, is determined not to allow any University or educational institution in Karnataka to become another Jawaharlal Nehru University where anti-national slogans were shouted with impunity.