VHP leader Praveen Togadia was found unconscious in a hospital in Shahibagh locality in Ahmedabad late on Monday after being reported missing in the day earlier.Ahmedabad: A day after he reappeared from a brief disappearance, Vishwa Hindu Parishad's international working president Pravin Togadia on Tuesday said that there was an attempt to suppress his voice and that he could be killed.
"I am being targeted for a decade-old case, there is an attempt to suppress my voice. Rajasthan police team came to arrest me. Someone told me the plan was to kill," Togadia said at a press conference in Ahmedabad Tuesday.
Togadia was found unconscious in a hospital in Shahibagh locality in Ahmedabad late on Monday after being reported missing in the day earlier.
Togadia Tuesday said Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and home minister Gulab Chand Kataria assured him on the day that there was no police action underway against him.
"They told me 'they have not sent any police' and that 'if something like this would be happening we would have known it'... When I realised the CM and Home Minister are denying the police action, I switched off all my mobile phone so that my location could not be traced.... later I got to know that they (police) have come with an arrest warrant," he said.
The VHP leader, a Z-plus category protectee, went 'missing' Monday morning after stepping out of the VHP headquarters in Paldi area of the city when a contingent of the Rajasthan police came to arrest him in an old case.
According to a statement issued Monday by the VHP in Delhi, 62-year-old Togadia, who suffered from low blood sugar levels, was found in an unconscious state in Shahibaug area and was taken to Chandramani Hospital located in the same area.
As the word spread, hundreds of VHP workers rushed to the hospital last night. On Tuesday, doctor said that his health was stable.
The mystery over Togadia's disappearance Monday had deepened, with a senior police officer maintaining that neither the local Sola police nor Rajasthan police had arrested him.
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