Amit Shah claims UP goons now say ‘arrest us, don’t do encounters’  

Amit Shah

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah, on Sunday, asserted that while criminals roamed freely in the SP and the BSP rule in Uttar Pradesh earlier, they are now seen moving around with a “patta” (placard) reading “arrest us but don't do encounter” since Yogi Adityanath became chief minister.

While addressing an election rally in Lucknow, Shah said, “Till the time the SP and the BSP ruled the state, criminals would roam freely. But, after Yogi Adityanath assumed office, criminals are seen moving with a patta reading arrest us but don't do encounter.”

He further claimed that a “pall of gloom had descended on Pakistan and the offices of SP, BSP and Congress on the day of surgical strikes.”

 From the last five years the Yogi Adityanath government in UP had been under criticism for launching a massive crackdown across the state, killing dozens of criminals. Reports had suggested that many people facing criminal cases wanted to be in jail rather than getting killed in encounters.

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