Intruder shouts ‘Jai Shri Ram’, Akhilesh alleges threat to life
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday alleged a threat to his life in Kannauj where an intruder shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ during a women’s conference at the party office in the SP chief’s presence.
Describing the incident as a breach of security, the SP chief alleged he had received a threat from a BJP leader two days earlier.
Yadav said he would hold a press conference in Lucknow soon and reveal more about the threat that he had received over the phone.
He said ‘BJP people’ were sending their people to his programmes. Last month, SP security personnel caught an LIU (government’s Local Intelligence Unit) personnel at Akhilesh Yadav’s press conference in Lucknow.
The incident in Kannauj on Saturday happened when Akhilesh Yadav addressed a women’s at the party office there.
Criticising the BJP and its government in his speech, Yadav said the BJP government shut down all public interest projects started by the previous Samajwadi Party government. He also alleged that the BJP government renamed the Samajwadi pension scheme, started by his government, as the Kisan Samman Nidhi.
When Akhilesh attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party government over unemployment, a youth in the crowd stood up and interrupted Yadav mid-sentence.
He counter-questioned Yadav, asking what he proposed to do if his government came to power.
Akhilesh Yadav then asked the youth to come closer as he was inaudible to him. At this, the youth shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at the venue of the conference.
The slogan prompted Yadav to say that he revered all--Ram, Krishna, Vishnu and Shiva.
He then expressed anger over the youth’s presence at the event and questioned the police personnel on duty at the spot.
Soon, Samajwadi Party workers pounced on the youth and took him aside.