Amid a political storm over infant deaths in Rajasthan’s Kota, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that over a thousand children have died in the last 12 months in Gorakhpur and asked the UP Government as to who was responsible for it.
Training his guns on the UP Chief Minister, Yadav said, “Yogi Adityanath is worried about Kota deaths. When will he be worried about the Gorakhpur deaths”.
Yadav told a Press conference here that the ailing children in Gorakhpur were suffering from encephalitis but were administered different medicines so that the truth did not come out that they were dying of encephalitis.
“Why wrong medicines were administered? Who is answerable? I will soon release a list of the dead children,” he said.
Hours later, Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma contested his claim. “He (Akhilesh) needs to furnish evidence with the list and not level baseless allegations,” Sharma said at a press conference.
The Chief Minister had on Thursday targeted the Congress over infant deaths in Kota, saying party leader Priyanka Gandhi should have gone there to console the children's mothers instead of “playing politics” in UP.