Uttar Pradesh Information: Amid the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, a younger Dalit girl’s physique was present in a sack in Karhal constituency on Wednesday morning. After the incident got here to mild, a political storm erupted after the household of the sufferer alleged {that a} native Samajwadi Occasion employee had been pressuring her in opposition to voting for the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) within the bypolls.
Based on the police, the accused had been recognized as Prashant Yadav and Mohan Katheria, in accordance with an NDTV report. They’ve been arrested after a case was registered on a grievance by the girl’s father. “The mother and father of the girl have stated the accused killed her as a result of she wished to vote for the BJP,” Mainpuri district police chief Vinod Kumar stated, as quoted by NDTV.
The daddy of the sufferer alleged that Prashant Yadav got here to their dwelling three days in the past and requested his sufferer daughter which occasion she would vote for. She responded that she would vote ‘lotus’ — the BJP’s image — as a result of her household bought a house beneath the PM Awas Yojana. After that, Yadav threatened her and requested her to vote for ‘cycle’—the’ Samajwadi Occasion’s election image.
Following the claims of the daddy, the saffron occasion slammed the Samajwadi Occasion over the girl’s demise. “At Karhal in Mainpuri district, Samajwadi Occasion’s Prashant Yadav and his aides brutally murdered a Dalit daughter solely as a result of she refused to vote for ‘cycle’,” state BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary stated in a put up on X.
The Samajwadi occasion’s Karhal candidate, Tej Pratap Yadav, stated there have to be an intensive probe and the responsible should face powerful punishment. Occasion spokesperson Rajendra Choudhary advised PTI, “It is a conspiracy to defame the Samajwadi Occasion by the BJP, which regularly engages in such actions. This has nothing to do with the SP.”
Individually, the occasion’s deal with on ‘X’ put up a put up, alleging that police had been intimidating voters in Karhal within the identify of patrolling.
The allegations in opposition to the Akhilesh Yadav-led occasion got here amid a blame sport between the ruling BJP and the opposition SP as 9 Meeting constituencies in UP vote in as we speak’s bypolls.
The seats on which the bypolls are being held are: Katehari, Karhal, Mirapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur, and Kundarki. The bypolls had been necessitated as these seats felt vacant after the sitting MLAs had been elected to Lok Sabha. Previous to Lok Sabha polls, which had been held earlier this 12 months, former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav represented Karhal within the state meeting. He was elected to the Decrease Home as Kannauj MP.
