Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party government in the Mangesh Yadav encounter case. The Congress MP from Raebareli wrote in Hindi on X, “In BJP ruled states, the very people who are responsible for implementing the law and constitution are violating them. The encounter of Mangesh Yadav in Sultanpur has once again proved that the BJP does not believe in the rule of law.”
He further posted on X, “The tears of Mangesh’s family are asking the whole country a question – who will live and who will not, will the court or police decide this?”
As per the former Congress president, “a professional force like STF was being run like a ‘criminal gang’ under the BJP government, on which the silence of the central government shows their clear consent to this ‘Thoko Niti’.”
“Dozens of encounters of UP STF are under question. Has any action been taken against any of those officers till date? After all, who is protecting them and why?,” he added.
Without taking names, Rahul Gandhi further wrote, “Holding the constitution to the forehead in front of the cameras is just a pretense, when your governments are openly violating it. All the suspicious encounters in Uttar Pradesh should be investigated impartially and justice should be done. Blood stains on the uniform must be cleaned,” he added.
Police was doing encounters for promotion and money: former BJP MP
Meanwhile, former BJP MP from Kaisarganj Brijbhushan Sharan Singh also expressed doubts on the role of UP police in the encounter. In an interview to a TV channel on Saturday, he put forth his views on the Mangesh Yadav encounter in Jaunpur. Giving a clean chit to government, he held the police guilty of the allegedly fake encounters. He clearly said that it was not the government’s fault, the police was doing encounters for promotion and money. He termed the SP chief’s statement that encounters were being carried out on the basis of caste as not true. Singh said that SP chief’s statement was not correct but the police was also not doing the right thing.
On Bulldozer issue, the former MP said that he was already against the bulldozer policy and no one’s house should be demolished just like that. He said that there would have been a majority win in UP but some mistake resulted in decline in number of BJP’s seats.
