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Manipur: Journalist, Activist Arrested for Facebook Posts After BJP Leader s Death
Kishorechandra Wangkhem and Erendro Leichombam were critical of BJP leaders who propagated cow dung and cow urine as a cure for COVID-19.
Kishorechandra Wangkhem and Erendro Leichombam.
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has earned a reputation for pressing criminal charges against its critics across the country, has now filed a complaint against an Imphal-based journalist and an activist over their Facebook posts. The two have also been arrested.
The Manipur police, on Thursday evening, arrested Kishorechandra Wangkhem and activist Erendro Leichombam from their homes, after it received a complaint from the BJP general secretary P. Premananda Meetei and BJP vice-president Usham Deban. The complaint alleged that Wanghkem and Leichombam’s Facebook posts insulted Manipur BJP president Saikhom Tikendra Singh, who succumbed to COVID-19 on Thursday.