In PM's constituency, Congress-BJP row over 'rape threat' sparks a scuffle & a sit-in. Cross-FIRs lodged

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Lucknow: A series of objectionable social media posts by a BJP IT cell member about a Varanasi Congress leader has sparked a political row in the prime ministers constituency, with the latter alleging that she was threatened with rape...

Local Congress and BJP leaders stood by their party colleagues after the fight over posts by the BJP IT cells Rajesh Singh about Congress leader Roshni Kushal Jaiswal took a violent turn Sunday...

Jaiswal went with her family to Singhs house and allegedly thrashed him, saying he had been making objectionable comments about her for some time and had last week threatened to rape her and get her pregnant in a now-deleted Facebook post...

Sudhir Singh, a member of the BJPs Kashi unit, told ThePrint that Jaiswal had been putting out objectionable posts about the PM and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath..

Singh, whose X profile says, In the garb of a bhagwadhari (saffron-robed), we have made a lion sit (on the throne), who dares throw a stone in Uttar Pradesh, said he was an RSS worker and only reacted when Jaiswal crossed all her limits.. His X profile has several posts against people such as Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and journalist Ravish Kumar, as well as the Muslim community...