Unable to fight politically, now the BJP government in the state is trying to implicate the political opponents in fake cases and has unleashed police terror against them in Narayanpur, after Bastar.
In a press statement issued here on Wednesday, Chhattisgarh State Congress Committee president Nand Kumar Patel and opposition leader Ravindra Choubey said that due to political ill-will police were taking action against the Congress leaders in Narayanpur. The protectors of the law themselves were violating the laws, the leader duo said.
They said that maintain peace during festival time is the responsibility of police, but on the occasion Holi a sub inspector had created a ruckus on the occasion and when a complaint was made in this regard in the police station, the police have registered serious criminal cases against the complainants.
They said that in order to hush up the guilty of their co-worker, the staff of Narayanpur police station have made the honest Congress workers prey to police terror.
The leader duo said that several cases of police extremism against the Congress leaders and workers across the state have come to the fore and the police have arrested several party leaders and workers and registered fake cases against them using various sections.
They alleged that in Narayanpur, the police were harassing the family members, including women and children of the Congress leaders and workers and the police were continuing their terror till now.
The Congress leaders, while condemning the Narayanpur incident, demanded that the arrested Congress men should be released immediately and to take strict action against the guilty police personnel.
Cong demands CM’s resignation
State Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla, in a press statement issued here on Wednesday alleged that the BJP government and the state home minister have been openly giving patronage to notorious criminals. He said that the travelling of home minister Nankiram Kanwar along with notorious criminals Anees Memon and Razzak Ali in a buggy during the BJP rally in Korba was the proof to his claim.
Shukla said that the person on whom the responsibility of maintaining law and order and to take stern action against the criminals was vested himself and was moving along with the notorious criminals in a public rally. He demanded from the chief minister to resign immediately on morel ground and to dismiss the superintendent of police of the district.