Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati compared the violence in Mathura with the Godhra riots thus putting both prime minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on the same platter.
"like Narendra Modi would be remembered for the 2002 Godhra massacre, similarly, the Samajwdi party government could not remove its black spots on its government for Muzaffarnagar and Gonda riots. Besides, now the Mathura violence has put the SP government in dock and it can be fully compared with the Gujarat incidents of 2002," she said. Mayawati also claimed that the Dadri incident and the old Hashimpura -Maliana incidents were not forgotten by the people of the state so far.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday morning, Mayawati said both the BJP and SP have hand in gloves and hence they are trying to instigate communal violence in the State before the assembly elections just for their vote bank politics. "SP and BJP are two sides of the same coin and people are frustrated with both of them, one at the Centre and another in UP, hence no one can stop BSP from coming to power," she claimed.
Demanding a judicial probe or an investigation by the CBI in the Mathura violence in which two police officials were killed along with 22 others, the BSP president said the SP government was shying away from high level probes which proves something fishy. "Direct involvement of a senior minister in protecting the so called Satyagrahis should also be probed," she further added.
Mayawati, also strongly criticitised Governor Ram Naik for his political statement in favour of the saffron brigade from time to time and alleged that the governor was indirectly campaigning for the BJP in the state. "Frequent tour of districts of Governor Ram Naik just like made be the chief minister and statement made by him supporting the arms training programme of Bajrang Dal is unfortunate and this shows that he was trying to do campaigning in favour of the BJP," she said while accusing Ram Naik of violating constitutional boundary just to campaign for BJP.