New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has
appointed a three-member team of senior party leaders led by
Maneka Gandhi to visit the riot-hit Bareilly and submit a
report on the events there.
"We will be leaving tomorrow for Bareilly and will be
back by evening," Gandhi said on Saturday.
The team, consisting of Gandhi, Gorakhpur MP Yogi
Adityanath and Meerut MP Rajendra Agarwal, is expected to
submit a report to the party president on the steps taken to
control the riots and the relief given to the affected people.
Curfew has been clamped in most parts of Bareilly, which
witnessed spiralling communal violence.
Gandhi is an MP from Aaonla, which is adjacent to
Bareilly.
BJP sources said the party is unhappy with the manner in
which the Uttar Pradesh government led by Mayawati has handled
the riots.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 18:55