Lucknow: Samajwadi Occasion president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh authorities, saying statistics of encounters through the BJP rule are additionally statistics of the “injustice of unlawful killings” and “injustice accomplished in opposition to the PDA”.
The previous chief minister additionally shared some information of “pretend encounter killings”, claiming that 60 per cent of these killed in gunfights with the police belonged to the PDA — a mix of ‘Pichde, Dalit and Alpsankhyak’ communities (backwards, Dalits and minorities). Nevertheless, the info had no supply talked about.
Yadav coined the PDA forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“The statistics of encounters through the BJP rule are additionally statistics of the injustice of unlawful killings and likewise of the injustice accomplished in opposition to the PDA,” Yadav posted on X on Tuesday night in Hindi.
Whereas the SP chief has been important of the state’s “set off pleased” police previously additionally, his newest assault stems from the current killing of Mangesh Yadav, a suspect within the Rs 1.5 crore theft at a jewelry retailer in Sultanpur, who died allegedly after a gunfight with the police.
In one other put up Tuesday evening, Yadav shared a bar chart on statistics of accused killed in “pretend encounters”.
The info confirmed that 125 (60 per cent) of these killed belonged to the PDA, 40 (19 per cent) to ‘others’ whereas information was unavailable for an additional 42 (21 per cent). The chart, nevertheless, talked about no supply of knowledge.
The Kannauj Lok Sabha MP had beforehand additionally termed Mangesh Yadav’s encounter as “pretend” and alleged that it was accomplished based mostly on the premise of the accused’s caste.
Nevertheless, on Monday, UP Director Normal of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar denied the allegations, saying no partiality is practised by the state police.
“Police don’t do such issues… When bullets are fired on police, those that have confronted such conditions, who’re our former officers, all of them find out about it… I deny all such issues and the police take motion fully impartially,” he informed reporters in Lucknow.
