Taking a serious note of fresh incidents of violence in Muzaffarnagar, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday hit out at the opposition parties saying that the Government would not allow such forces to disturb communal harmony.
Speaking at a function held here to distribute laptops at the KK Inter College sports campus here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said, “We will deal firmly with communal forces trying to create disturbances”.
He said Uttar Pradesh was known for its Ganga-Jamuni culture and the Samajwadi Party Government would ensure peace among the people.
He assured that the Government would distribute compensation to the riot victims, as it had done in the past.
The CM had returned from New Delhi after participating in a meeting of Third Front leaders. Referring to the meeting, Yadav said the SP would gain maximum seats in the coming lok Sabha elections and the Third Front would emerge as an alternative to the UPA Government at the Centre.
The CM distributed laptops to 13,831 students. He laid the foundation stone of 94 projects amounting to Rs 515.90 crore and unveiled another 21 projects worth Rs 8.5 crore. He announced that a university would be set up in Kannauj.
The Samajwadi Party MP from Kannauj and the Chief Minister’s wife Dimple Yadav was present at the function. Besides this, the CM inaugurated a Talimi seminar.
He said that the Samajwadi Party had fulfilled all its electoral promises. While distributing laptops to the students, Dimple Yadav said the students would benefit largely by it and it would help in making their future bright.
Prominent among those present on the occasion included Health Minister Ahmad Hasan, Minister of State for Secondary Education Vijay Bahadur Pal, State Minister Satish Dixit, MlA from Sadar Anil Dohre, Chhibramau MlA Arvind Singh Yadav, former block pramukh Nawab Singh Yadav, Panchayat chairperson Sunita Dohre and several other SP leaders.