BJP faces Sangh parivar heat over release of nuns from Chhattisgarh jail
The nuns were arrested on July 25 after the intervention of Bajrang Dal workers and were granted bail by the NIA court in Bilaspur on Saturday. BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar was active in the efforts to get them released from jail.
'We don't need police and courts. Political leaders who anticipate votes will decide as to who the culprits are,' Swami Chidananda Puri, founder of the Advaita Ashram in Kolathur, near Kozhikode, said in a Facebook post.
Expressing dismay, Hindu Aikya Vedi leader K P Sasikala said withdrawing cases and concluding legal procedure amounted to insulting the legal system. Taking to Facebook, she said there were no godfathers when cases were slapped on leaders including her during the Sabarimala agitations. People like S J R Kumar, T P Senkumar, K Surendran and K S Radhakrishnan faced around one thousand cases at the time, she said. 'We didn't approach anyone to withdraw the cases and will not do so in future too,' Sasikala said.
Senkumar, a former state police chief, was more sarcastic in his remark. 'It was the Herculean task of Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar and his team that fetched bail for the nuns. We can expect their help in getting the case quashed,' he wrote on Facebook.
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