UP leaders, intellectuals demand action against MNS

Lucknow, Nov 11 (PTI) The assault on Samajwadi Party
lagislator Abu Asim Azmi in the Maharashtra assembly has come
in for severe criticism by Hindi litterateurs and political
parties in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh with
protestors burning effigies of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS)
chief Raj Thackeray and demanding a ban on the party.

Congress party and Samajwadi Party workers took out
separate protest marches in Bhadohi district Wednesday.
Congress party workers who submitted a memorandum
addressed to India's President Pratibha Patil demanding ban on
MNS, held the march through the streets and raised anti-MNS
slogans.
Hindi Vidyapeeth President Sumit Vyas has sent a letter
to India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his help in
ensuring that the most unfortunate incident of insult to the
national language is not repeated.
Communist Party of India (CPI) held a protest meeting
in northern city of Lucknow during which it held
Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) government
responsible for the unlawful activities of MNS leaders against
Hindi and north Indians.
A Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) release called for
checking the practice of dividing the country and Hindus on
the issue of language and region.
North Indian Public Union, Akhil Bhartiya Alpshankhyak
Adhivakta Association, All India Dalit Muslim Morcha, Shia
Democratic Alliance, Sunni Board of India and Lok Awaz and
others held separate meetings to protest the incident and
demanded a ban on the MNS and expulsion of its legislators.
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