Protesters in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, were not allowed to burn effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday, December 26, by local police officials. They, however, vowed to burn effigies of these leaders on 26th of every month as their demand of creating a separate state of Bundelkhand remained unanswered.
Bundelkhand Nirman Morcha president Bhanu Sahay said that Modi, Singh and Bharti had turned their backs after promising to create a separate Bundelkhand state, Eenadu India reported. After the police snatched the effigies from the protesters before they could burn them, they started sloganeering against the prime minister.
The protesters have planned to intensify the agitation by hitting the streets as the Modi government has completed four years of its tenure without listening to their demand.