Ranchi, Oct 4 (PTI) Jharkhand BJP president and leader of opposition Babulal Marandi on Saturday accused the Hemant Soren-led state government of appeasing minorities and threatened a statewide agitation over an "illegal" religious structure in Gumla.

In a letter to Chief Minister Soren and shared with the media, Marandi alleged that a 'tazia' structure made of bricks and bamboo was erected more than three weeks ago on private land at a Raiyati plot owned by Rupesh Kumar Singh in ward 14 of Azad Basti, Raza Colony, Gumla, without action from authorities despite a police complaint.

The letter claimed that Singh was informed on September 9 that a group from a particular community had encroached on his 0.71-acre ancestral plot and built a platform to place the 'tazia'.

"One of the accused,

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