LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday visited the grieving family members of the slain farmers and a journalist who were mowed down by a jeep belonging to the son of Union minister of state for home in Lakhimpur on October 3.
Pinning hopes on the Supreme Court for justice to the victim families, he said the BJP has been blinded by arrogance.
“The grieving families want justice. But the BJP does not want to shed its arrogance. Why have the named accused not been arrested till now? We are sure that the Supreme Court will ensure justice to these families. The truth will prevail and the guilty will be punished,” Akhilesh said.
Akhilesh went on to attack the ruling BJP saying: “The government seems to have been blinded by arrogance and conceit of power and is not bothered about the agony of the families who have lost their near and dear ones.”
He met the family members of Lovpreet in Paliya, journalist Raman Kashyap of Nighasan and Nakshat Singh of Dhaurhra. On Friday SP chief will visit Bahraich to meet family members of Daljit Singh in Nanpara area and of Gurwinder Singh at their Raghunathpur residence of the district. He said the party will help the families in every possible way The SP chief attacked the government for ordering a probe by a retired judge of the Allahabad High Court. “The probe should be conducted by a sitting judge of the Allahabad High Court,” he said.
