Arup Kumar Dey is an elected member of the Bodoland Territorial Council
Guwahati:
“Negative” online messages about Prime Minister Narendra Modi hurt BJP workers and people “should be careful” when tweeting about him, the Assam BJP leader on whose complaint Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was arrested has told DailyExpertNews.
Arup Kumar Dey, a young BJP leader, is an elected member of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and an executive council member responsible for the health and family welfare portfolio.
Mr Mevani, a Dalit activist and lawmaker from Vadgam, was arrested from Gujarat by Assam police officers and taken to Kokrajhar in a case filed in response to an online report about the Prime Minister. On Friday, a local court placed him in pre-trial detention for three days.
Mewani has been charged with criminal conspiracy, violations related to the place of worship, outrage at religious feelings and provocation that could lead to a violation of the peace.
Speaking to DailyExpertNews, Mr Dey said he has been following Mr Mevani’s tweets for a long time. “He tries to divide people by his posts and always speaks negatively about Prime Minister Modi. We are lucky that Modiji is our Prime Minister and Mevani tries to link his name to the recent (incidents of) violence. Is Prime Minister Modi responsible for that? He says that Godse is Prime Minister Modi’s God, what proof does he have?”
“We are BJP workers and we do not tolerate such misleading and conspiratorial messages and tweets about Prime Minister Modi ji,” Mr Dey said.
The BJP leader said they wanted to send a message through the police force against Mevani.
“Through this complaint, we want to send a message to others, especially representatives of the public, that they should be careful when tweeting about Prime Minister Modi. We registered the FIR and invoked strong sections because Mevani wanted to provoke a certain community. His Tweet indicated that he blamed the prime minister for the recent violence in Gujarat. Anyone can appeal to the prime minister to press for peace, but cannot blame a prime minister for violence in any state,” he added ready.
Dey stressed that his complaint “has nothing to do with politics” or the upcoming elections in Gujarat.
“The swift arrest of Mevani by the Assam Police Department shows that the police are extremely active here under the reign of the dynamic Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. So if a tweet has the potential to create disharmony in the community, we will take action this way,” he added. †
