JALANDHAR: A month after after Shiv Sena (Bal Thackeray) state president
Yog Raj Sharma said that several outfits in the name of Shiv Sena were operating and working on the instructions of powers that be, Shiv Sena (Hindustan) president
Pawan Gupta has also admitted that some outfits were formed at the behest of the government and they follow the agenda of the
intelligence agencies.
“Though there are genuine outfits named Shiv Sena, some have been formed at the behest of the government and they follow the agenda and instructions of the intelligence agencies,” he said while addressing a press conference here on Monday .
Notably, addressing a press conference in Jalandhar on April 23, Yog Raj Sharma had termed all other outfits fake and said that these were formed to get police security. he had also alleged that these "fake" outfits were working as “agents” of the government and encouraged to speak against other communities.
However Gupta, on Monday, did not agree that all other outfits were formed to get security and were fake. “Some outfits are genuine. If different factions are operating, it does not mean that they are fake even as some have been formed at the behest of the government,” he added. He held that security was being provided by the police brass on the basis of threat perception and their leaders were really facing threat.
Asked about the violent clash at Phagwara in the midnight of April 13 between right wing Hindu groups and dalit activists in which one Dalit was killed after receiving a bullet in his head, he said that some political interests are involved. However, he refused to name any political party. "It was not clash between communities, but between groups who have vested interests," he claimed.
Pawan Gupta