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The dispute between Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments over rush of migrants at the UP-Delhi border on Saturday could escalate after Noida police registered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chaddha early Sunday morning.
On Saturday, the Delhi and UP governments had blamed each other for triggering panic among the migrants staying in Delhi, leading to their exodus from the national capital.
However, the situation worsened when AAP MLA Raghav Chaddha tweeted that the UP chief minister was behind chasing and beating up of the migrants and asking them why they had gone to Delhi for work.
The tweet, which was later deleted, however angered the UP leaders.
Mrityunjay Kumar, media advisor to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, said that the statement was in bad taste. “An FIR would be lodged against the AAP MLA,” he said.
He said such acts of the AAP leaders were deplorable when the country was fighting the coronavirus scare.
“Thousands of people came to Delhi-UP borders violating the lockdown norms but the AAP government did nothing to stop them. On the other hand, the UP government did everything by providing them (migrants) buses and food,” he said, adding that it showed the real face of the AAP government.
But AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh blamed the UP government for the chaos.
“On March 26, the UP chief minister had announced that his government would provide all facilities to the migrants staying anywhere in the country to return to their villages in UP. This announcement created the problem but now the Bharatiya Janata Party is blaming us for it,” he said in a statement here.
On Sunday, an FIR was lodged against AAP MLA Raghav Chaddha at the Sector-20 police station in Noida by senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Kumar under sections 500 and 500 (2) of the Indian Penal Code along with Section 66 of the IT Act.
The FIR (number 0292) says that as per the complaint of the lawyer, the accused has tweeted a malicious message against the UP chief minister and it is a deliberate attempt to create law and order problem.