Ridiculing Samajwadi Party president and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for openly supporting rape accused leaders - Gayatri Prasad Prajapati and Arun Verma, the BJP questioned SP’s tag line `kaam bolta hai’ querruying whether the CM was talking of this type of ‘kaam’.
Yadav campaigned for the two leaders—contesting the Assembly polls on party tickets— at Amethi and Sultanpur.
State BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that rape accused Prajapati was not arrested despite an FIR being lodged at the Supreme Court’s direction and this only cements Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charges that police stations in the state were being run by criminals in the SP regime.
‘’The CM is openly supporting criminals and rapists and it is unfortunate that he was trying to mislead the people of the state by allying with the Congress,” he said.
SP MlA from Sultanpur, Arun Verma was accused of raping a woman and recently, she was found murdered under mysterious conditions. An FIR was subsequently registered against him.
The BJP leader further questioned the SP-Congress alliance leaders when leaders of both parties are contesting in many constituencies of Rae Bareli and Amethi. “The alliance has no meaning and the two parties arte only trying to confuse the voters,” Pathak said.
UP minister and SP’s Brahmin face Manoj Pandey is contesting from Uchahar seat from where Ajai Pal Singh of Congress is also in the fray.
In Amethi too, Prajapati is pitted against Congress’ Amita Singh, the second wife of Congress leader Sanjay Singh. Interestingly, Sanjay’s first wife too is a BJP candidate from the same seat.