‘Yogi govt has failed to maintain law & order’
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav attacked Yogi Adityanath on Thursday over the “quick succession” of incidents of crime across Uttar Pradesh and said he would not ask the chief minister to resign but urge the people to dislodge him and his party.
Akhilesh also accused the activists of the BJP of the violent protests against Bollywood period drama Padmaavat.
“The police were prompt in tracking down and arresting the potato farmers (who threw potatoes outside Adityanath’s residence and Vidhan Sabha building) but are clueless about the back to back dacoities and crime incidents that have rattled the state,” the former CM said.
Akhilesh flashed pictures, books, reports to make his point while addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Lucknow. “Will he
(Yogi) resign if I ask. He won’t. There is no point in asking for his resignation when people are not getting justice,” he said.
Akhilesh said Adityanath had famously said that ‘pradesh ke apradhi pradesh chhod ke bahar chaley jaayein (Criminals in UP now must leave the state and go elsewhere).
“What happened to this warning that Yogi had been issuing?” he asked. He said there was no place in the state that is untouched by gory crimes.
“Investors will be terribly scared of coming to UP to invest. Let us see how he (Adityanath) eradicates that fear now,” he said.
Akhilesh was referring to the forthcoming UP Investors’ Summit scheduled on February 21 and 22.
The Samajwadi Party leader accused the BJP government of posting officers who he said were engaged in pleasing their political masters instead of deploying good officers on important posts.