Stressing that the State Government was sensitive towards laws and order, State BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey said that the present regime has inherited anarchy and chaos in the State. He said that the Yogi Government in the last six months has made strenuous efforts for restoring the rule of law in the State and the results of which were now visible.
In a statement released in lucknow on Saturday, the BJP leader said that after restoration of law, the State Government has now focussed its attention on implementation of development and welfare schemes for improving the lot of the masses.
Pandey said that the BJP Governments at the Center and the state were working for the uplift of the masses. lauding party cadres, he said that the workers’ hard work enabled the party to win 73 seats in 2014 lok Sabha poll and helped in getting a historic mandate in 2017 Assembly elections.
The BJP leader hoped that the BJP would repeat this performance in the elections of Urban local Bodies scheduled to be held in November.
Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party accused the Yogi Government of being highly insensitive towards the plight of the masses who were the victims of crimes and slammed the BJP regime for the deterioration in law and order.
Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said in lucknow on Saturday that there was no let up in crime particularly heinous crimes against women across the State. He said the girl students and office going women were not safe even in lucknow.
Citing the recent incident of suicide by a school girl in Kirthal village of Bagpat, Chaudhary said that the girl was a victim of gang rape four months ago. He said that the local criminals repeatedly threatened her of repeating the ghastly act and the victim’s family even met CM Yogi Adityanath but failed to get any relief. He said that similar incidents occurred in Meerut and Mathura where girls committed suicide. He said similar incidents of crime also occurred in Banaras Hindu University and Rohailkhand University.
The SP leader said that instead of acting on the complaints by girl students of BHU, they were subjected to brutally cane charged by the police. Chaudhary said that the spate of incidents of serious crime against women has proved that criminal and anti-socials have a free run in the BJP regime.