Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was conspiring against its own people and that the ruling party was behind the communal violence in Bahraich.
On October 18, Sureshwar Singh, BJP MLA from Mahsi in Bahraich district, filed an FIR for rioting and serious offences against the BJYM office-bearer and several unidentified people in the communal violence case.
Akhilesh alleged that the BJP conspired to incite riots for power and the rioters themselves were “revealing the truth” in front of hidden cameras.
The BJP has yet to respond to Yadav’s latest attack on the party over the communal violence in the Maharajganj town of Bahraich district last week.
“Shame on such BJP politics and BJP’s hunger for power, which conspires to incite riots... for politics. Every day new revelations are being made in the case of Bahraich violence and the BJP is not able to show its face. BJP MLAs themselves are filing FIRs against BJP members for conspiracy and the rioters are revealing the truth in front of hidden cameras,” the SP chief said.
“The few supporters and voters of BJP that are left are also ashamed to see this conspiratorial and violent form of the BJP. The BJP has used the sentiments of its supporters by misleading them to save and maintain its power. The truth is that BJP is conspiring against its own people,” he added.
Akhilesh Yadav also alleged that the BJP was trapping its members by “getting them to indulge in rioting”, which was why party members were filing complaints against one another.”
“UP kahe aaj ka, nahin chahiye Bhajpa (Today’s UP says it doesn’t need the BJP),” he said.
Yadav also shared a media report on X in which two alleged rioters filmed on hidden cameras point towards a conspiracy behind the communal violence in Maharajganj and make several “revelations”.
Communal violence broke out in Maharajganj after a youth named Ram Gopal Mishra (22) was shot dead during a Durga idol immersion procession on October 13.
MLA Sureshwar Singh lodged an FIR in the city police station on October 18 against seven named accused, including BJYM’s Srivastava, and many other unidentified individuals on charges of rioting and disturbance.
On the complaint of the MLA, a case was registered against Srivastava, Anuj Singh Raikwar, Shubham Mishra, Kushmendra Chaudhary, Manish Chandra Shukla, Pundrik Pandey and Sudhanshu Singh Rana as well as unidentified accused under relevant sections.
The MLA alleged that when he, along with his bodyguards and other colleagues, reached the Bahraich Medical College to take Ram Gopal Mishra’s body to the mortuary on October 13, Srivastava and his supporters raised slogans of ‘murdabaad’ against them and hurled abuses. Apart from this, stones were also pelted with the intention of stopping his car and killing him, Singh claimed.
A bullet was also fired by the mob due to which the glass of his car broke and his son Akhand Pratap Singh narrowly escaped, the Mahsi MLA added. The police said the case against the BJYM office-bearer and others was the 12th FIR registered so far related to the Maharajganj violence.
