LUCKNOW: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said Samajwadi Party’s legal cell will lodge an FIR against Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s IT department, for allegedly spreading misinformation through his tweets to malign the image of the party leadership.
In-charge of BJP’s national IT department and member of party’s national executive, Amit Malviya had tweeted a photograph of Akhilesh Yadav along with his wife Dimple, then minister in his cabinet Abhishek Misra and MLC Pushparaj Jain among others.
The caption of the photo says: "In 2015 Akhilesh Yadav had led a delegation to Grasse in France on grounds that a perfume park has to come up in Kannauj. In this photograph, his perfume businessman friend can be seen from whose house stacks of currency notes were found buried under the floor and hidden inside the walls. This was the wealth that was robbed from the people of UP."
Samajwadi Party said perfume trader from whose house the cash has been seized and was subsequently arrested was Piyush Jain and he is not in the photograph.
"BJP se jhoota koi nahi hai… Jhoot baantne wala koi nahi(There is no bigger liar than BJP, they spread lies)" Akhilesh said, adding that only their own people take these lies as truth. He said BJP leaders sitting in Delhi are spreading rumors in Uttar Pradesh to vitiate the atmosphere ahead of the elections.
Responding to a media query on if the FIR will be lodged when the SP will form the government after the 2022 Assembly polls, Akhilesh said the complaint will be filed soon. "Action will follow after the SP government is formed because in the BJP government no action is initiated against anyone who targets me. However, if anyone dares to write anything about their (BJP) leaders, the police comes calling," he said.
The former UP CM said he has learnt that the director general of police have been devoid of all his powers by the present dispensation. "In such a scenario what should I expect from the government and the police," he said.
