With Dadri lynching accused in front row, Yogi Adityanath says ‘Samajwadi Party government tried to curb our emotions’
Yogi Adityanath.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, on Sunday, addressed an election rally in Greater Noida, in which the accused of the 2015 Dadri lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq were seen sitting in front row. Akhlaq was beaten to death over the suspicion of consuming cow meat.
Vishal Singh Rana, the son of local BJP party worker Sanjay Rana, is a key accused in the case that made headlines across India in 2015. He was seen sitting in the front row cheering for Adityanath. Vishal claimed that 16 of the 19 accused were part of the audience as all of them support the BJP.
The man in white, chanting “Yogi, Yogi” is the prime accused in the Mohd Akhlaq lynching case, out on bail currently.
— Poulomi Saha (@PoulomiMSaha) March 31, 2019
Spotted in the front row today of the UP CM’s rally in Dadri. pic.twitter.com/Vj6bFcIKEo
While campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gautam Buddha Nagar candidate, Mahesh Sharma, Adityanath said, “Who doesn’t remember what happened in Bisara (village in the Dadri area)? The way the Samajwadi Party government tried to curb our emotions here.”
Adityanath alleged that the previous governments divided people on the basis of caste and said, “In western UP, if you were riding a bullock cart or a buffalo cart and by chance stopped at a tobacco shop or a tea stall, buffaloes, bullocks would get stolen. When we came to power, we shut all the illegal slaughterhouses in one go.”
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