(PTI)
There have been no riots under the BJP regime in Uttar Pradesh and incidents of crime have decreased, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said, accusing the Samajwadi Party of failing on the law-and-order front during its tenure. “In the previous regime riot-accused people were brought in state plane to meet the chief minister (Akhilesh Yadav) at his residence. Its (SP) ministers were involved in the Muzaffarnagar riots. In past three years there were 450 riots in the state but in the past four months there were no riots,” Yogi Adityanath said in the state Assembly. Citing data, the CM also said that cases of murder, dowry and crimes related to SC/ST have seen a decline in his tenure.
“No FIRs were lodged in previous SP and BSP regimes. We have given directives to lodge FIRs in all cases. Solving of of cases related to murder, dacoity and other crimes have increased. The opposition did not want this,” the CM said. Attacking SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Adityanath said political patronage was given to criminal elements during his tenure as chief minister. Adityanath cited cases like the Jewar gangrape and kidnapping of two traders in Jhansi and said they were solved in a timely manner. “It is our ideology that no guilty person should be spared. The opposition has objections as to why the Azamgarh liquor tragedy case was solved and why the name of the accused and his party was taken. A hardened criminal was arrested in Ambedkar Nagar. If his background is revealed, it will make many uneasy,” the CM said.
