Fatehpur violence matches BJP's divisive communal politics: Akhilesh
Akhilesh Yadav
on Tuesday said vandalizing of a 200-year-old mausoleum in Fatehpur was in line with BJP's agenda of divisive politics that thrives on communal hatred.
He demanded immediate and stringent action against those responsible for the violence.
The issue rocked the state Assembly on Tuesday when Leader of Opposition and SP MLA Mata Prasad Pandey sought govt's response on the incident when parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna informed the house that FIR has been lodged under stringent section of the BNS reflecting commitment of the government to bring guilty to book.
Commenting on the sequence of events in Fatehpur, Akhilesh said it was yet another instance of BJP's politics of divide and rule. He said each and every person involved in the incident must be identified from the video footage and arrested immediately and action should be initiated against the district's DM and SP if they fail to initiate action against those involved.
He said the incident reflected the BJP's decline and accused it of hatching conspiracies to disturb social harmony when facing public discontent.
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The BJP wants to spread hatred between Hindus and Muslims. Whenever anyone raises issues of public interest, the BJP ends up pitting Hindus and Muslims against each other, he said responding to media queries in Ranchi.
Akhilesh said this was not the first incident with communal overtones to have taken place in Fatehpur. He said sometime back a mosque was demolished in the Fatehpur district after being labelled "illegal" on the grounds that its layout map had not been approved. He then recalled how a Muslim youth was murdered recently and action against the accused was initiated only after the locals and political parties mounted pressure on the govt.
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