"Worked to divide the army...should be arrested immediately": VHP demands "strict action" against SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav

New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Vinod Bansal on Friday demanded "strict action" against Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav for demeaning defence officials, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Air Marshal AK Bharti.
He accused Yadav of dividing the army and trying to create hatred among various components of Hindu society and demanded for his immidiate arrest.
"He has worked to divide the army and tried to create hatred among various components of Hindu society. He should be arrested immediately...We've requested to CM and police that if such people are left free, then such people will continue to divide the society... I hope that serious action will be taken against him...," said Bansal.
Bansal informed that one of the VHP worker has filed a police complaint against Yadav, demanding strict action under the SC/ST Act and the Army Act, citing Yadav's comments as "anti-national" and "divisive."
"One of our workers from Moradabad has filed a police complaint in Civil Lines police station and through that complaint we have said that for such anti-national, divisive statements, serious sections of SC/ST Act should be imposed, and strict action should be taken against him as per the Army Act," said Bansal.
The SP MP clarified that he was making a point about people with "corrupt mentality" that those who "abused" Colonel Sofiya Qureshi on the basis of her religion would have abused Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Air Marshal AK Bharti, had they known their caste location.
Taking a dig at UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who labelled his remarks as "casteist", Yadav said that the CM, under whose nose the atrocities are committed, reacted to his statement without even listening to it.
He also ridiculed the media channels, saying nobody except the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trusts them.
"I am surprised that the Chief Minister, under whose nose unimaginable atrocities are being committed on minorities, Dalits and backward classes, tweeted without even listening to my entire statement. I have no complaint against the media channels that have taken over Islamabad and Rawalpindi because no one except the ruling party trusts them," Yadav posted on X.
Meanwhile, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed Yadav, stating that the armed forces' uniform is not viewed through a "casteist lens" and that Yadav's comments reflect narrow-minded thinking, insulting the army's valor and national pride.
BSP Chief Mayawati criticised both BJP and SP leaders for dividing the army based on religion and caste, calling their actions "shameful and condemnable". (ANI)