Opposition members accused the Samajwadi Party-led Government for the Muzaffarnagar riots and sought stringent action against the rioters.
The Bahujan Samaj Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party raked-up the Muzaffarnagar issue during the Zero Hour of the State legislative Council and demanded strict action against therioters. The Opposition leaders also demanded lodging of FIR and arrest of senior UP Minister Mohammad Azam Khan when without taking his name, they made the said demand quoting that whose name has emerged in a sting operation conducted by a TV news channel should be booked.
leader of Opposition in Vidhan Parishad, Naseemuddin Siddiqui said “The Government has failed in controlling the law and order situation.” The State Government just remained a mute spectator and a minor incident of eve-teasing turned into a big communal riot incident. He claimed that more than 100 incidents of communal violence have occurred in the current regime of the Samajwadi Party.
The senior Minister, whose name has emerged in the riots in the sting operation, should be booked and arrested at the earliest, he demanded. A CBI probe should be held into the riots, Siddiqui asserted.
Nepal Singh and Vinod Pandey of BJP also charged the Government with influencing the working of police.He tagged the SP-led UP government as “circular”.
Meanwhile, leader of the House in UP legislative Council Ahmad Hassan while reply to allegations of Oppositionleaders said the Muzaffarnagar violence is sorrowful as it claimed the lives of over 40 people. He said that the government has done everything to control it otherwise peace in the area could not be restored so early.