BJP Protests For Renaming Tower In Andhra, Several Leaders Detained
NDTV
For the past few months, the BJP and other Hindu organisations have been demanding that the historic Jinnah Tower be renamed but the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government paid no heed.
Several BJP leaders, including its national secretary Sunil Deodhar and workers were taken into police custody when they sought to march to the Jinnah Tower Centre in Guntur on Tuesday evening demanding that it be renamed after former President A P J Abdul Kalam.
After a meeting of the party's youth wing BJYM, the BJP leaders and workers tried to take out a protest march to Jinnah Tower but police foiled it and detained them.
For the past few months, the BJP and other Hindu organisations have been demanding that the historic Jinnah Tower be renamed but the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government paid no heed.
On Tuesday, Mr Deodhar, the co-in-charge of the party for the state, was in the city and sought to lead the protest.
