Attacks Won’t Break My Father’s Resolve: Tarun Vijay’s Daughter

Tarun Vijay was attacked by a mob for entering a temple in Uttarakhand with Dalit leaders.

• Police had arrested 3 people in connection with a scuffle which broke out in Uttarakhand’s Chakrata where BJP MP Tarun Vijay received head injuries. One more was arrested on Sunday.
  
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• Rajya Sabha member Tarun Vijay was attacked on Friday by a mob after he came out of a temple with Dalit leaders in Chakrata, Uttarakhand. The mob attacked Vijay and the Dalit leaders, apparently, for visiting the temple where entrance of people belonging to backward castes is prohibited.
  
  
• The police team present there rescued the Uttarakhand MP and the Dalit leaders. Vijay was taken to a hospital and is said to be in the ICU.
  
  
• “Such incidents will not be tolerated. Strict action will be taken against those found responsible for the attack,” Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said.

(With inputs from PTI)

Speaking to NDTV, his daughter Shambhavi Vijay said on Monday that attacks such as these were not going to break her father’s resolve and that “he will not give up.”

BJP MP Tarun Vijay received head injuries after a scuffle outside Silgur Devta Temple in Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/dfveTshOcw

— ANI (@ANI_news) May 20, 2016

#WATCH Eyewitness from yesterday's incident (when Tarun Vijay was attacked) recounts experience to Uttarakhand CM.https://t.co/h1YRJ6v8aG

— ANI (@ANI_news) May 21, 2016

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has condemned the attack. He visited Vijay in the hospital on Saturday morning.

Various people have taken to Twitter to condemn the attack.

The attack on Shri @Tarunvijay is shocking and condemnable. Wish him speedy recovery.

— Naveen Jindal (@MPNaveenJindal) May 21, 2016

Condemn attack on MP Tarun Vijay. Such practices of discrimination and untouchability should be put to an end mercilessly

— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) May 21, 2016

I have been with @Tarunvijay Ji on several programs. We differ, but I respect him. Wishing him a prompt recovery & back to action soon.

— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) May 21, 2016

Shocked to hear about an attack on Tarun Vijay. Saddened more by d fact that d reason was d same old malice. Qtn of Temple entry of dalits.

— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) May 21, 2016