Opposing the decision of the state government to give pension to riot victims the Bharatiya Janata Party said that this decision proves Government was promoting violent incidents.
''The decision of the government to provide Rani laxmi Bai pension to the family of theinjured in the riots will in a way promote violent incidents,' UP BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said in a statement here on Wednesday. He questioned whether the victims of earlier riots or future riots would get similar pension. The state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had announced that 74 riot-hit families would get the pension of Rs 400 per month.
''The families of the injured from Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Saharanpur, Baghpat and Meerut would get Rs 400 per month from September as per the rules and guidelines of the Rani laxmi Bai Pension scheme of the state government,'' an official had said.