Congress leaders burnt the effigy of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in over a dozen districts to register their protest after the brutal lathi charge on them during their demonstration against the state government on last Monday.
Spokesman of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) Amarnath Agarwal in a statement said here on Saturday evening that the Congress workers had burn the effigy of the chief minister in protest of the lathi charge resorted on them while they were going to lay seize Vidhan Sabha over the issues of corruption, condition of law and order and atrocities on women, on last Monday in the lakshman Mela ground under the leadership of Congress's state president Dr Nirmal Khatri.
He said that the protest against the government which started on Friday continued on Saturday also. He said that on Saturday they burnt the effigies in Badaun, Pilibhit, Bareilly, Sitapur, Ambedkarnagar, Bahraich, Mau, Azamagarh, Kanpur Dehat, Firozabad, Etah, Meerut, and Saharanpur districts.
Similary, the protest will be staged in Rampur, Sitapur, Faizabad, Santkabir Nagar, Ballia, Pratapgarh, Kannauj, Bagpat, Mainpuri, Jalaun, Hamirpur and Chitrakoot on Sunday, spokesperson added. Agarwal said that their protest will continue till strict actions would be taken against the officials who used brutal lathi charge on them. He said that the Party would also further organise such demonstration till those involved in corruption will be arrested, full security cover will be provided to women and all promises made by Samajwadi Party during the election campaign will be fulfilled.