LUCKNOW: Sharpening attack on the state government over its failure to arrest the policemen involved in the death of Kanpur businessman at a Gorakhpur hotel, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the BJP is sheltering wanted cops as a “payback to the administration that has secured victory for the party in panchayat polls”.
He said despite video evidence of the Gorakhpur district police chief and district magistrate trying to dissuade the family of the deceased not to register a case against the accused cops, no action was initiated against them.
“Isn’t it a fact that the Gorakhpur district police chief is related to a senior BJP leader which is why no action is being initiated against him,” he asked.
“In a state which boasts of using bulldozers against criminals has conveniently failed to track an IPS officer who is also wanted in a heinous crime and is said to be absconding. The inspector involved in Kanpur businessman’s murder has had a shady past, still he was serving in Gorakhpur and is now on the run. People can easily see through all this,” the former UP CM said.
He said all promises of probe were an eyewash. “The government is shielding them because it is the same administration that has ensured victory for the BJP in panchayat polls,” Akhilesh said, interacting with media persons in Lucknow.
On a query related to a recent statement of a former Congress MLA that only SP could defeat the BJP in UP, Akhilesh said: “Ye bilkul sahi hai… SP hi BJP ko harane ke liye taiyyar hai (It is correct … only SP is ready to defeat BJP).”
A host of former MPs and MLAs, including former Congress MLA Gayadin Anurag, former BSP MP Rizwan Zaheer and members of the Kinnar Mahasabha, joined the SP at the event.
