Senior Samajwadi party leader Shivpal Yadav, in the line of fire over the Mathura incident where 24 persons including two police officers were killed on Thursday has demanded an unconditional apology from the BJP president Amit Shah. The BJP president has held Shivpal Yadav responsible for the Mathura incident and had demanded his resignation from the cabinet. Amit Shah had also said that Mathura like situation is prevailing in whole of UP.
"There is no substance in the allegation leveled by the BJP president Amit Shah. What ever he said is a cock and the bull’s story. If he has any evidences than he should make them public or he should tender an unconditional apology’, said the state in charge of the SP and the PWD minister Shivpal Yadav here on Saturday.
"BJP president is deliberately spreading falsehood to malign his image by leveling baseless, false and negative allegations. There is no truth in his statements. Amit Shah is the national president of the party and his statements were not in conformity with the dignity of the office he is holding’’ said Shivpal Yadav.
Asking the BJP president to follow the agenda of development and stop issuing statements for misleading the people of UP, the SP leader said "the opposition parties in UP have become politically bankrupt so they were forced to make irresponsible statements to find a place in the media’’.
Countering the criticism of the Samajwadi Party government by the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati here on Saturday, the SP leader said `` Mayawati should check her facts before making statement about the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his government’’.
"Mayawati is like a tourist in UP, who comes to lucknow once in couple of months only to issue some statement,. While chief minister Akhilesh Yadav believes in direct communication with the masses and for this purpose he was in Bundelkhand on Saturday to redress the grievances of the people suffering from the drought’’.