BJP state president laxmikant Bajpai condemned Akhilesh Yadav Government’s discrimination in announcing financial assistance to families of martyrs.
In a statement here on Monday, Bajpai said the Yadav Government had insulted the contributions of the martyrs towards the nation by dividing them on the basis of caste
and religion. "The BJP will not tolerate this", he remarked. The BJP chief posed nine questions to the Yadav Government. Some of these queries included the criteria of
assistance to policemen who were killed in similar circumstances.
He sought to know why the Yadav Government had announced financial assitance of Rs 50 lakh and jobs to two family members to family of one martyr while Station
Officer who was killed in Allahabad Rajendra Prasad Dwivedi , Satish Parihar, who died in Agra and similarly other policemen who gave up their lives in Saharanpuir
and Bareilly Cant were not given Rs 50 lakh financial assistance.
Bajpai criticized Government’s discrimination of difference in posts of the martyrs, the criteria for assistance to the families of the deceased, violation the Constituion.
Moreover he questioned why the Chief Minister had failed to visit the families of the martyrs, while he promptly visited the family of slain policeman Zia-ul-Haq.