The Communist Party of India (Marxist lenninist) staged a state-wide protest against the state government to seek the intervention of the Central government into the displacement of the Muzaffarnagar riot victims, on Thursday. They also sought the intervention of the President against shutting down of relief camps sheltering Muzaffarnagar riot victims.
The CPI (Ml) activists handed over memorandum addressing to the President to the District Magistrates and alleged that the State government failed to avert the Muzaffarnagar riots. In the memorandum, the activists alleged that the Samajwadi Party-led UP government has failed to fulfill its responsibilities and was displacing the riot victims. The protestors also sought the intervention of the central government to punish the guilty. They said that the President should issue an advisory to prevent eviction of victims from camps. Similar demonstrations were held across the State.
Meanwhile Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)leaders had alleged that the state government is trying to displace people from the relief camps in severe cold conditions. leader of Opposition in the State Assembly and senior BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya alleged that BJP and SP are behind the communal riots which broke out in Muzaffarnagar in September last year in which 60 persons were killed. Maurya visited the relief camps at Kandhla, Malakpur, and Barnawi and Sanjak in Shamli district with former BSP minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui, State BSP President Ram Achal Rajbhar, BSP MPs Munkad Ali and Kadir Rana on Wednesday.
``The state government is trying to displace people from the relief camps in severe cold conditions", Maurya alleged. The leader also distributed blankets at the Sanjak relief camp. Earlier on Dec 31, as many as 483 riot-hit families camping in loi village left for "safer places" on December 31.There are no more relief camps left in Muzaffarnagar district, while neighbouring Shamli still has four camps. There were more than 510 families living in the loi camp after the riots broke out in September.
According to a high-level committee constituted by state government, at least 34 children below the age of 12 years have perished in the relief camps in the Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. More than 60 persons were killed and over 40,000 displaced in communal violence that broke out in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in September last year.