BJP team soon in UP to review 'deteriorating' law & order scene

The BJP will soon send a Central team of its leaders to Uttar Pradesh to assess the “deteriorating law and order” in Uttar Pradesh and plan out aggressive political protests against the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) Government. There has been a spate of murder, rape and attacks on scribes in the State with BJP State unit organising protest agitations in State.

After staging a 24-hour-long dharna as part of party’s State-wide agitation against the “poor” law and order situation in UP, BJP State leaders on Sunday submitted a memorandum to Governor Ram Naik alleging failure of SP Government on all fronts.“A Central team of leaders will also shortly visit the State and come back with the feed back to recommend further action”, sources said. 

A number of brutal attacks against journalists, leading to their deaths, have prompted the Press Council of India (PCI) to send its team to the State for an independent inquiry.The PCI has now recommended to the Uttar Pradesh Government to get the case of burning of journalist Jagendra Singh probed by an impartial agency and blamed the State police for neither providing security to the deceased nor showing interest in the investigation of his death.In another horrific incident at Barabanki this week, mother of a journalist, who had accused police officers of setting her ablaze at a police station when she refused to give money to free her husband from lock up, succumbed to injuries on Tuesday.