Jaipur: BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and other party leaders were stopped from visiting violence-hit Karauli in Rajasthan on Wednesday by authorities citing law and order issues. Surya, BJP's Rajasthan chief Satish Poonia and BJYM workers were stopped near Mahua on the Jaipur-Agra highway.

They were asked to get into a bus and taken away from the spot but they kept demanding that they be allowed to meet victims of the April 2 violence, which broke out after a bike rally being carried out to mark the Hindu new year was allegedly pelted with stones.

Over 30 people were injured in the violence.

Earlier in the day, BJYM workers took out a "Nyay Rally" to meet victims of the violence in Karauli. They were stopped near Mahua on the Jaipur-Agra highway while on their way to Karauli.

As the protesters kept demanding that they be allowed to meet the victims and raised anti-government slogans, police were told to get into a bus and taken away from the spot.

Karauli SP Shailendra said the protesters were not arrested.

Heavy police force was deployed along the Karauli-Dausa border.

According to police, due to a curfew in Karauli, BJP leaders were stopped from going there.

When Surya reached the Karauli border along with BJYM workers, police put up barricades and stopped them.

Surya and other leaders sat on a dharna on the border.

Surya said on this occasion, "The whole state wants to see the truth of what happened in Karauli. We want to go to Karauli peacefully. The Yuva Morcha wants to go peacefully so why are they stopping us."

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