Accusing the Commissionerate police of acting in a partisan manner by not saving the BJP activists from BJD attacks during a rally, Odisha BJP leaders today gheraoed the police headquarters here.
The agitating BJP leaders handed over a memorandum addressed to the State DGP, as Additional DG (law and order) Satyajit Mohanty received the memorandum on behalf of DGP K B Singh.
"The DGP will examine the BJP leaders' petition," Mohanty said.
Hundreds of BJP activists led by senior party leaders came to the police headquarters in a rally from Netaji Museum holding placards, banners and shouting slogans and gheraoed the office of the DGP.
A minor scuffle ensued between BJP activists and police when the former tried to go inside the police headquarters breaking twin barricades.
Around 12 platoons (1 platoon comprises 30 personnel) of force were deployed to avert any untoward incident.
Criticising the Commissionerate police, BJP leaders alleged that while Wednesday's dawn to dusk Bhubaneswar bandh, called by the party, was passing off incident-free, the Bhubaneswar police acted as mute spectators when some ruling BJD activists held "counter" rallies and confronted the BJP picketers.
"The Bhubaneswar police were responsible for Wednesday's attack on us by BJD", they alleged.
Demanding action against the erring policemen and the BJD activists for the incident, appropriate police action against Bhubaneswar Mayor Anant Narayan Jena over the sex videotape issue and a proper probe into the mysterious death of an engineering student of Bhubaneswar, a delegation of BJP leaders submitted the memorandum.
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