Jamshedpur: No cultural event will be allowed at Sidhgora Town Hall, says DC

Security beefed up at Surya Mandir after BJP-BJM clash

Administration should act impartially: Raghubar Das

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, Oct 29: East Singhbhum district administration Saturday declared that no individual or political party would be allowed to organize any cultural programme at Sidhgora Town Hall ground during Chhath festival.

Deputy Commissioner Vijaya Jadhav said there was prohibition on organizing events without permission.

She said Chhath devotees may perform worship at the Surya Mandir premises as usual. No inconvenience would be caused to the devotees, she said.

Meanwhile, district administration here made elaborate security arrangements at the Surya Mandir precincts after a violent clash between the supporters of former Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy yesterday. RAF personnel were deputed all over the place to keep peace. Administration officials said the Chhath festival would be organized in the presence of magistrates.

The DC held a meeting with Raghubar Das at Circuit House to discuss about the incident at Surya Mandir campus. Raghubar and many other BJP leaders also visited the Surya Mandir this morning and held a meeting. Raghubar said the IAS and IPS officers were public servants and they should do what was expected of them in their official capacity.

“District administration has no right to dissolve the Surya Mandir Committee. The DC should work impartially in this matter. An attempt was made to disrupt peace at the temple premises yesterday. Certain people want to turn this temple into a political turf and foment discord among the people. This will not be tolerated,” he said.

Surya Mandir committee patron Chandragupt Singh was also present at the sun temple today.

Dhalbhum SDO Piyush Sinha visited the temple at 1.30 pm and spoke to Raghubar Das. DSP City Kamal Kishore was also present.

Culprits will be punished, will speak to senior BJP leaders: Saryu

Jamshedpur, Oct 29: Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy who returned to Jamshedpur from Bengaluru today met the injured members of his party, Bharatiya Jantantra Morcha (BJM), including Subodh Srivastava and Ajay Sinha, at Tata Main Hospital.

“I have seen the video footage of the violence. The culprits would be identified and prosecuted. It is to be seen as to what steps are going to be taken by the district administration in this case. The incident was pre-planned. If the administration does not take any action, I would identify the culprits and paste their posters across the city. We will ask the public to name them. If the culprits turn out to be BJP men, I will speak to senior BJP leaders and inform them about the goings-on.”