Shedding the tag of going soft on the Akhilesh Yadav government, State Congress announced to hold a massive demonstration and gherao the State Assembly against the Rsjungle raj’ in the State on August 17.
This would be UP Congress sencond agitation against the Samajwadi Party government after the lok Sabha elections.
Announcing the date for the agitation, UP Congress vice-president Satyadeo Tripathi, who is also chairman of the media committee, said that the Party will hold a massive demonstration in front of the Vidhan Sabha on August 17, during the monsoon session of the State legislature.
He said that a meeting of the party vice-presidents and general secretaries would be held in lucknow on August 5 for the preparation for the demonstration. AICC general secretary and In-charge of UP Madhusudan Mistri and UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri would chair the meeting.
“The law and order situation in the state has gone worst with crime against women and scribes have reached to its peak thus giving an impression of a jungle raj in the State,” he said while talking to reporters here on Saturday evening. He said that the party legislators and MPs from the state would also participate in the demonstration and a direction in this regard would be given to them by state president, Nirmal Khatri.
Tripathi alleged that the move of the UP government to challenge the High Court order of CBI probe against suspended engineer Yadav Singh proves that this Samajwadi Party government was giving patronage to the corrupt officials misusing the public funds.”The woes of the cane farmers was yet to end as the sugarmills were yet to pay their dues while the power crisis has deteriorated in this regime,” the Congress leader said.
On the other hand UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri met the people , who had faced police atrocities in Hamipur jail on Saturday. Meanwhile a delegation of the Basti Congress led by its district president Virendra Pratap Pandey met UP governor Ram Naik over the woes of the sugar mills in the district and the pending dues of the sugarcane farmers.