General secretary of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Amar Singh, MP Jaya Bachchan and Bhojpuri superstar Manoj Tiwari were barred from entering Gorakhpur by the Uttar Pradesh police after they alighted from a charted plane at the Gorakhpur Airforce Airport at 1.30 pm yesterday.
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NO ENTRY: MP Jaya Bachchan and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh flew back to Delhi |
General secretary of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Amar Singh, MP Jaya Bachchan and Bhojpuri superstar Manoj Tiwari were barred from entering Gorakhpur by the Uttar Pradesh police after they alighted from a charted plane at the Gorakhpur Airforce Airport at 1.30 pm yesterday. The plane flew back to Delhi at 5.30 pm.u00a0
"What's the point of living in a democracy, if one is mistreated in this manner. We don't know why we were subjected to such treatment," Jaya Bachchan told MiD DAY.
Amar Singh said, "The police treated us like criminals by manhandling Manoj and me. How can Manoj contest elections, if he is not allowed to enter the city?" Manoj is the party candidate from the Gorakhpur constituency.
R K Shrivastav, senior superintendent of police, Gorakhpur City, said "A Muslim religious function was underway in the city. The SP leaders would have attracted even more crowds. This prompted us to use Section 144 of the IPC, and bar their entry."
