Patna: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on August 16 petitioned the Governor M Rama Jois against banning of programmes of its international general secretary Praveen Togadia and vice president Acharya Giriraj Kishore by the administration in Bihar and described it as ''unconstitutional, anti-nation and anti-hindu.''

A delegation of VHP state unit headed by its organising, secretary Radha Mohan Singh called on the Governor on August 16 evening and submitted a memorandum to him to formally lodge protest against banning of Togadia's and Kishore's visit to the state.

Singh claimed that the Governor assured them of looking into the matter.

Terming as ''anti nation and unconstitutional'' the action of the administration preventing the VHP leaders from participating in parishad's programmes, Singh urged the Governor to order an independent inquiry into the circumstances that forced the administration to ban their visit.

Day after Togadia was packed off to Delhi without attending functions organised by VHP on the occasion of Independence Day in Patna, Kishore was on August 16 externed on his arrival from New Delhi without participating the parishad's programme in Muzaffarpur.

PTI