Resign if you can’t handle UP, Mayawati tells Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow, Aug 01:  Former UP CM and BSP chief Mayawati has asked for the resignation of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav over the Bulandshahr horror. “Resign if you can’t handle law and order. Agar UP sambhaala nahin ja raha hai, toh behtar hoga ki CM ke pad se naitikta ke aadhar pe isteefa dedena chahiye.Ye meri salah hai. Iss ghatna se saaf zahir ho gaya ki UP mein kanoon ka raj nahi, jungle-raj chal raha hai. My advice is that if you cannot handle UP it’s better that you resign from the CM’s post. After this incident it is apparent that there is no law and order in UP. ”

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday claimed to have held three of the accused involved in the brutal gang rape of a woman and her teenage daughter by bandits on gunpoint on Friday night after dragging the family out of a car near Bulandshahr, even as the Samajwadi Party government came under intense flak over the incident.

UP Director General of Police Javeed Ahmed, who was rushed to Bulandshahr by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after the incident at village Dostpur here on Delhi-Kanpur highway came into limelight, identified the three detained as Naresh, 25, Bablu, 22, and Rais, 28.

He said police had taken into custody 15 persons, all of them belonging to a nomadic tribe, on Saturday evening and interrogated them.

Three of those held who belonged to Bawariya gang have been identified by the victims and all the culprits would be booked under the stringent National Security Act, he said.

As the incident, which occurred near bypass when the family from Noida was from travelling to Shahjahanpur on NH-91, acquired a political hue, the chief minister went into a fire-fighting mode and suspended Senor Superintendent of Police Bulandshahr Vaibhav Kishan, SP city Rammohan Singh, Circle Officer (Sadar) Himanshu Gaurav and Station House Officer Ramsen Singh of Kotwali Dehat, amid allegations of laxity by police.

The DGP, accompanied by principal secretary (home), visited the site of the incident on the direction of the CM.