Lucknow: A Muslim woman, who attended an election rally of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Ballia on Tuesday, was apparently made to remove her burqa by the police.
A video clip of a woman named Saira has gone viral on social media in which she is being made to take off the burqa by the female police. Women sitting near Saira can be seen helping her to take off the garment which was later taken away by a male police official. The incident took place minutes before the Chief Minister arrived at the venue.
Though the SP Ballia Anil Kumar said he had ordered a probe into the incident, junior officials said that this had been done in view of a recent incident in Meerut where some people had shown black flags to the Chief Minister.
The woman, Saira, later told reporters that she and her husband were BJP members for a decade and she always attended rallies and party events in a burqa.
Reacting to the incident, All India Muslim Personal Board member Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali said that the incident was condemnable.
