Sultanpur/Kaushambi, February 21 Workers of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Saturday burned effigies of Rahul Gandhi in the districts of Sultanpur and Kaushambi to protest the "shirtless" demonstration staged by members of the Indian Youth Congress during the AI Impact Summit in Delhi.
In Sultanpur, BJYM leaders and supporters gathered at the Collectorate gate and raised slogans against the Congress leader before burning his effigy in the presence of police personnel, district president Chandan Narayan Singh said.
The protesters later submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate and city magistrate Preeti Jain, seeking strict legal action against those who protested in the national capital.
A similar protest was held in Manjhanpur, the headquarters of Kaushambi district, where BJYM workers again burned an effigy of Gandhi and shouted slogans.
District president Shiv Pratap Maurya alleged that the Congress workers had disrupted an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He said the protest was carried out on the instructions of top BJP leaders.
On Friday, a group of IYC workers staged a dramatic "shirtless protest" at an AI Impact Summit exhibition hall, walking around holding T-shirts bearing slogans against the government and the India-US trade deal.
Four people have been arrested in connection with this, with IYC national president Uday Bhanu Chib asserting that the organization was not against the AI summit but against "any compromise with India's interests".
