"What BJP wants is happening": Ram Gopal Yadav lashes out at BJP over Nagpur Violence

New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav lashed out at BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) over the Nagpur Violence and said that whatever they wanted has happened.
"What BJP wants is happening", Ram Gopal Yadav said to the reporters on Tuesday.
Earlier, violence broke out in the Hansapuri area of Nagpur on Monday night over the Aurangzeb grave issue. Unidentified individuals vandalized shops, torched vehicles, and pelted stones following an earlier clash between two groups in the Mahal area that had already heightened tensions in the city, as per reports.
An eyewitness from Hansapuri described the chaos caused by a masked group. "A team came here, their faces were hidden with scarves. They had sharp weapons, stickers, and bottles in their hands. They started the ruckus, vandalized shops, and pelted stones. They also torched vehicles," the eyewitness said.
Another local resident confirmed the destruction. "They vandalized shops... they set fire to 8-10 vehicles," he said.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Shyamkumar Barve, speaking in Delhi, condemned the violence and urged people to maintain peace. "The kind of attempt is being made, a Hindu-Muslim clash has never happened in Nagpur. I want to appeal to both communities to maintain peace... an attempt is being made to divert attention from key issues through such incidents," Barve said.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut condemned the violence which erupted in Nagpur earlier on Monday, saying that there is "no reason" for such an incident to happen in a city where the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is headquartered and is also the constituency of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
"There is no reason for violence to occur in Nagpur. It is where RSS is headquartered. It is also Devendra ji's constituency. Who can have the courage to spread violence there?" Raut said during a press conference in Mumbai.
He further alleged that there is a pattern emerging to "scare Hindus" and make people of the same community attack each other.
"This is a new pattern to scare Hindus, make their own people attack them, and then incite and involve them in riots. The things which are happening regarding Aurangzeb, it is for planting fear into the minds of people, they are trying to finish Maharashtra and the country," the Shiv Sena UBT leader added.
Sanjay Raut challenged the Chief Minister to register cases under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
Curfew was imposed in multiple areas of Nagpur city under Section 163 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) following tensions over the demand to remove Aurangzeb's grave, read an official Maharashtra police notification.
According to the official order issued by Nagpur Police Commissioner Ravinder Kumar Singal, the restrictions will remain in place until further notice.
The curfew applies to police station limits in Kotwali, Ganeshpeth, Tehsil, Lakadganj, Pachpaoli, Shantinagar, Sakkardara, Nandanvan, Imamwada, Yashodharanagar, and Kapilnagar. (ANI)