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Liquor bottles were served in lunch packets at an event organised by BJP leader Naresh Agarwal’s son Nitin Agarwal in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi, on Monday, 7 January.
Nitin Agarwal, who recently joined the BJP, had organised a sammelan for the local Pasi community at the Shravan Devi temple. Both Naresh Agarwal and Nitin were present at the event when the lunch packets with liquor bottles were served to the villagers.
In a video that has gone viral, Nitin Agarwal was seen announcing from the dias that the food packets would be handed over to the village head who would, in turn, distribute them among villagers.
What is worse, the lunch packets with liquor bottles were also distributed among minor boys who had come to the event with their fathers.
BJP MP from Hardoi Anshul Verma has criticised the event and promised action against those responsible.
“Naresh Agarwal who recently joined our party had organised a Pasi Sammelan at the Shravan Devi temple. I will call the event condemnable because we had distributed pens among these boys and inspired them towards enlightenment, trying to merge them with the mainstream. By pushing them away from it and mocking our efforts by handing over liquor bottles to them is condemnable. I will write to the top leadership about this incident and also meet them personally and ensure action is taken against officials responsible for it.”Anshul Verma, BJP MP
Former SP MP Naresh Agarwal had joined the BJP in March 2018 with his son Nitin.
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