Members of Uma Bharati's new party blackened the face of a professor in Raipur Medical College for reciting a poem at an Independence Day function in which he allegedly made dishonouring remarks against the goddess Lakshmi. [Link]
According to Bharatiya Janshakti Party state general secretary Rajiv Lochan Shrivastava, some party officebearers came to know about the "derogatory" poem recited by BK Jain the day later and met the professor at the medical college to make him confess regarding the same.
Since neither Jain nor the college administration apologised, enraged party workers organised a rally on August 17. They nabbed Jain and pushed him to publicly accept his "offensive" act.
The Bharatiya Janshakti Party was formed by Uma Bharti after she parted ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a couple of years ago.
