Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said that the government in Uttar Pradesh had ceased to exist as there was no control over crime and atrocities and all sections of society were living in constant fear of threat to their life and property.
Akhilesh Yadav, in a statement here on Tuesday, said atrocities were being committed against Dalits in Jaunpur district in the presence of police, while a girl was gang-raped in Kasganj district.
He alleged that instead of taking action against the rape accused, the kin of the rape victim were being harassed by the police.
The SP chief said criminals fired at a journalist in Ghaziabad. He said the journalist, apprehending attack, had complained to the police two days back but no action was taken by the police.
Yadav said that two minor sisters were first abducted and then gang-raped in the Nighasan police station area of Lakhimpur Kheri and the police filed a report after 18 hours of the incident and the family members of the victims were made to sit in the Kotwali and were harassed.
The SP chief alleged that rather than helping the people during the coronavirus crisis, BJP leaders were busy in pedalling illicit liquor. He said after Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, BJP’s sector convenor was caught trading illicit liquor in Kishni area of Mainpuri district.
Yadav said that two people had died and five were still in the hospital after drinking spurious liquor in Meerut.