BJP flag hoisted in school to celebrate UP win; probe ordered

A probe has been ordered into hoisting of a BJP flag by a group of party workers at a government school Araria district of Bihar to celebrate the party's win in UP Assembly election.

The incident took place at Dak Haripur Kanya Madhya Vidyalaya in Forebesganj on March 18, while results of UP election were announced on March 11. When students and teachers were leaving the school on March 18, some BJP workers barged into the campus and hoisted the party's flag there to celebrate the party's victory in UP, the school's headmaster told District Education Officer Faizul Rahman.

Headmaster Jagdish Mehta said he tried to stop them but they outnumber the staff and hoisted the flag, Rahman told said on Thursday.