LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party on Friday sharpened its attack on the ruling BJP over the Lakhimpur incident in which four farmers and a journalist were mowed down by a jeep belonging to the son of Union minister of state for home. Party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav said the government is merely doing formalities and has done nothing to arrest the Union minister’s son.
“It seems that the government is sending flowers to the accused instead of ensuring his arrest. How can there be justice when the minister has not resigned from the post. If police will go to the minister’s house to question his son, they will first salute the minister. How can there be justice in such a situation,” Akhilesh said, adding that the minister should resign from the post.
The former UP chief minister accused the police of indulging in formalities merely to show that the cops are serious about the probe.
“The reality is that it was only after the Supreme Court took up the issue that the government has been compelled to move in the name of action against the accused. It is only because of the Supreme Court that the victim families are now hopeful of justice,” Akhilesh said, while talking to the media in Bahraich after meeting the family members of local farmer Gurwinder Singh of Raghunathpur and Daljeet Singh of Nanpara.
He said even the Supreme Court has questioned the government over the pace of investigations.
The Samajwadi Party on Friday also tweeted a videoclip of a news bulletin screening a BJP MLA threatening farmers at a public meeting purportedly in Lakhimpur.
In the videoclip, the MLA can supposedly be heard saying that the people should not show black flags to them.
The MLA can be heard boasting that they can do whatever they want. The SP questioned the statements of the MLA and demanded action against him.
