Lucknow, November 1 The Bharatiya Janata Party Friday accused the Akhilesh Yadav government of failing to bring normalcy to riot-hit Muzaffarnagar and said government’s wrong policies continued to divide the western elements of Uttar Pradesh on religious lines.
Muzaffarnagar’s district administration was repeating its mistakes in Kawaal village, that triggered communal clashes killing sixty two in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in Sep, party spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
“Like in Kawaal, the victims are being made the defendant and this doesn’t augur well for peace and communal harmony in the state,” Pathak.
He said the government should make sure that there’s no inequality in the rehabilitation method. The guilty in the Sep riots should be charged in an unbiased method, the spokesman said.
Violence resurfaced in Muzaffarnagar Tuesday with the killing of 4 people in 2 separate incidents. The Director general of Police Deo rule Nagar had Thursday admitted that the incidents took place because of police’s failure.
The Additional Director General of Police (Law and order) Mukul Goel has also gone on record to say that the situation in the riot-ravaged areas of western UP – Muzaffarnagar, Meerut and Shamli- ne’er came to normalcy after the September riots
While eight people are arrested and fifteen were booked for the recent violence, officers admit that the area was deeply divided on religious lines and that the situation continuing to be very tense at the ground level.
