Priyanka, Akhilesh lash out at Yogi govt

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday mounted an attack on the Uttar Pradesh government and held it responsible for the bodies that were seen floating in the Ganga in Ballia and Ghazipur districts, in the past few days.

While Priyanka demanded a judicial probe headed by a high court judge and said what is happening is inhuman and criminal, Akhilesh Yadav said the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh must be held accountable for “failing” its people badly.

“What is happening in UP is inhuman and criminal. The government is busy image building while people are suffering unimaginably. “There must be an immediate judicial enquiry headed by a High Court Judge into these events,” Priyanka wrote on Twitter.

“Bodies are floating in the Ganga in Ballia and Ghazipur. Reports are coming in of mass burials on the banks of the river in Unnao. Official numbers from cities like Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Jhansi and Kanpur appear to be grossly under-reported,” the Congress general secretary said in another tweet.

“Bodies found floating in the Ganges are not a statistic, they’re someone’s father, mother, brother and sister. What has transpired shakes you to your core. There has to be accountability from the very government that has failed its people so badly,” Yadav said in a tweet.

In a separate tweet, he thanked the British Association of Physicians of India Origin (BAPIO) for providing ventilators and oxygen concentrators to India.