News India Flashpoint Ayodhya: VHP leader Ashok Singhal, 957 others released by UP govt

Flashpoint Ayodhya: VHP leader Ashok Singhal, 957 others released by UP govt

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government today released 958 VHP workers including its leader Ashok Singhal while shifting Pravin Togadia and some others from Faizabad to Etah, a day after they were taken into custody for taking



"They and other VHP workers will be released when there will be no threat for peace from them," he said.



Togadia was arrested yeterday from the banks of river Saryu in Ayodhya from where the Chaurasi Kosi Prakrama was to begin, while Singhal was taken into custody at Lucknow airport when he arrived from Delhi.

IG Law and Order RK Vishwakarma said that VHP held protests in Kanpur, Auraiya, Lucknow, Barabanki, Ghazipur, Bulandshahr, Jhansi, Aligarh besdies other district and there was no untoward incident.

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