Arson attack at Rita Joshi's residence

LUCKNOW: Congress workers staged demonstrations at all tehsil headquarters in the state on Saturday demanding a CBI inquiry into the arson at the residence of UP Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi last month and submitted a memorandum addressed to governor BL Joshi through district authorities.
Vijay Saxena, the party media secretary said that besides party workers and office-bearers, MPs Jagdambika Pal, Annu Tandon and MLAs also participated in the demonstrations and flayed the state government's role in the crime that took place at Joshi's house in high security zone.He said that in Lucknow tehsil, senior Congress leader Swarup Kumari Bakhshi, Shyam Kishore Shukla, Subodh Srivastava and other party leaders took part in the demonstration.
He said that according to reports reaching the party headquarters the party workers staged peaceful demonstrations in Siddharthanagar, Saharanpur Faizabad, Unnao, Hamirpur, Ghaziabad, Sitapur, Hathras, Maharajganj, Sant Kabirnagar, Kannauj and other districts demanding a CBI probe into the incidents of arson.
Saxena said that in Varanasi and Bhadohi the demonstration was postponed due to sudden demise of governor designate of Gujarat Devendra Dwivedi though a memorandum was submitted to the authorities.
Meanwhile, UPCC spokesperson Dwijendra Tripathi said that the UPCC on Saturday took a decision to postpone its coordination committee meeting to August 6 citing AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's engagements. The coordination committee meeting which was earlier scheduled to be held on August 4 would now be held on August 6.
He said that the August 6 meeting would be attended by all 40 members of the committee including Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh and UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi among others.