Togadia refused permission to attend VHP rally in Guwahati

VHP’s Assam unit said there was no logic behind the police apprehension if Togadia addresses the meeting.

2 min readGuwahatiFeb 12, 2015 08:40 PM IST First published on: Feb 12, 2015 at 08:40 PM IST

Pravin Togadia

International VHP working president Pravin Togadia was on Thursday refused permission to address the VHP’s golden jubilee function in the Assam capital, with Guwahati Police Commissionerate fearing that his inflammatory speeches would disturb law and order and hurt sentiments of the religious minority community.

Togadia, who arrived in the city early on Thursday from Silchar in southern Assam, had to remain confined to the VHP office here for over six hours, during which he however addressed an impromptu press conference in which he criticized the Congress government in the state for stopping him from addressing the VHP function.

Police Commissioner Jyotirmoy Chakravarty in an prohibitory order issued under Section 144 of the CrPC said Togadiya had in a meeting at Patharkandi in southern Assam delivered a speech in which he asked religious minority groups to reconvert to Hinduism, “which is likely to create deep resentment and insecurity among minority communities and disturb public order.”