Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said all the MPs, MLAs, office-bearers and workers of the party will take out processions at the collectorate before handing over a 25-point memorandum to the district authorities.
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To highlight the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has announced state-wide protests on August 9.
The protests will coincide with the Kranti Diwas which is on August 9. The party’s national spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said, “There is a complete ‘jungle raj’ in the state. In every district, there has been a spurt in the crime graph. SP workers are being targeted in every district. BJP leaders are giving patronage to criminal elements in the state.”
The Samajwadi Party has demanded shifting of the Unnao rape accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar to a jail outside Uttar Pradesh, allocation of land to tribals of Umbha village in Sonebhadra district and entering their names in the revenue records.
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The list of demands also includes setting up of a fast track court for the trial of the accused in the Sonebhadra massacre case.
The state-wide protests also demands to stop victimization of party MP Mohd Azam Khan and MLA Abdullah Azam who have been known to make some controversial statements.
Accusing the Yogi government of deteriorating law and order system Akhilesh Yadav said, “In the tenure of the Yogi Adityanath government, there have been 729 cases of murder, 803 of rape, 799 of loot, 60 of dacoity and 2,500 incidents of abduction across the state. ‘Jungle raj’ is prevailing in the state. If the arbitrary attitude of the BJP government is not stopped, then the state will succumb to anarchy.”
Yadav added that all the MPs, MLAs, office-bearers and workers of the party will take out processions and stage sit-ins at the collectorate before handing over a 25-point memorandum to the district authorities.
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