New Delhi, Mar 15: As outrage over the brutal attack on a horse by BJP legislator Ganesh Joshi in Dehradun grew, the Uttarakhand politician has denied attacking the animal and claimed that he was not there at the march organised by his party.
"I was not there at the march," Joshi told India Today TV on phone, even as he could clearly see visuals of him attacking the horse with a stick on his TV. The visuals show a man wearing sunglasses and brown jacket charging at the animal. Joshi admitted he was wearing a brown jacket, but denied it was him on the screen.
The horse deployed as part of mounted police was injured during a protest march by the BJP to the Uttarakhand assembly against "corruption and poor law and order" in the state.
The incident happened when the march was stopped at barricades put up by Uttarakhand police near Ripsana bridge, a few metres from the state assembly premises.
Hours after the incident, two videos, one of them purportedly showing the horse's broken hind leg and the other showing Joshi attacking the horse with a lathi from the front, went viral.
Doctors have suggested amputating the injured leg of the horse, who may not survive since a horse cannot live on three legs, animal rights activist Ambika Shukla told India Today TV.
BJP spokesman Munna Singh Chauhan denied the charge, claiming that the horse had got injured after one of its legs got stuck in a pothole.
The horse was part of mounted police deployed to control the protest march called by the opposition party to protest against the state government's alleged failure on all fronts including law and order and corruption.
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