Congress legislators would hold a day long dharna

Congress legislators would hold a day long dharna here on Saturday to press their demand for a CBI probe into the gruesome murder of the son of a former Party MlA Jung Bahadur Singh in Amethi. 

The dharna programme to be held at the the Gandhi Pratima would be led by UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri and legislature party leader Pradeep Mathur.The party is demanding a CBI probe into the murder of Mahendra Pratap Singh, son of the former party MlA in Gauriganj, who was killed on June 14 last.

Party’s spokesperson, Dwijendra Tripathi in a statement released here on Friday evening alleged that Samajwadi Party MlC Akshay Pratap Singh along with his close supporters are behind this murder but government was not taking any action and had helped their Party leaders to go scot free. “Police even removed the name of Akshay from the FIR,” he further alleged while charging that how Samajwadi Party leaders were indulged in criminal activities and the government is doing everything to save them, leading to virtual `Jungle Raj’ in the State.

Meanwhile from Saturday, UP Congress will go on an active mode in the state for next three days. While on Saturday, the legislators would give a dharna, on Sunday, a chintan Shivir would be held here under the chairmanship of AICC General Secretary Madhusudan Mistri where 28 senior leaders would discuss the ways and means to revive the party. On September 30, the leadership will hold a meeting with the district and city presidents.

Meanwhile three candidates including a Samajwadi Party nominee have filed their nominations for the Kairana assembly by-election on Thursday and Friday when the last date for filing of the nominations is Saturday. While SP candidate Nahid Hasan and Independent Vikram Kumar filed their nominations on Friday, an Independent lakhmi Chand filed his nominations on Thursday. Congress had announced  Akhtar Hasan, uncle of the SP candidate as the party candidate while BJP announced  Anil Chauhan as the candidate from the seat. But both are yet to file their nominations. While nominations would end at 3pm on Saturday, the scrutiny of the papers would be done on Monday and the last date of withdrawal of nominations is October 1. Polling for the by-election of the seat, vacated by BJP MlA Hukum Singh after being elected to the lok Sabha, would be held on October 15 while counting of votes would be taken up on September 19. There are 2,82,130 electorates including 1,26,194 women in the Kairana assembly seat.