SP workers were going to Lucknow after defeat in Kundarki, police detained 35 people; Akhilesh Yadav targeted them

Sitapur: During the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party had to face defeat in the Kundarki assembly seat of Moradabad. Meanwhile, the Sitapur police have detained 35 SP supporters going to Lucknow as suspects. All of them were going to meet SP national president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow to express their pain of election rigging and being stopped from casting their votes. The police detained all these SP supporters traveling in five cars.

Police said it was a matter of routine checking.

The whole matter is of the city Kotwali area. Here Superintendent of Police Chakresh Mishra has stated the police media cell and said that intensive checking is carried out every night to prevent criminals. In this connection, 35 suspicious persons along with about five vehicles were stopped by putting up a barrier late at night. The SP says that when the persons are unable to show the documents and RC of the vehicles, all of them are brought to the police station, and other actions including challan are taken.

Akhilesh Yadav targeted the BJP.

After the workers were stopped, Samajwadi Party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav also targeted the BJP by posting on Twitter. Akhilesh Yadav wrote on Twitter, ‘People who were stopped from casting their votes in Kundarki or whose votes were cast by someone else were coming to Lucknow to tell their plight because there was no hearing at the local level. This would have exposed the election scam of the BJP, which is why they were detained by UP Police in Sitapur midway. We request the Honorable President, Honorable Supreme Court, Election Commission, Human Rights Commission, Honorable Governor, and all the newspapers and news channels of the country to take immediate cognizance of this matter and ensure that the BJP government of UP does not commit any injustice or atrocity against those who want to raise their voice for their right to vote.’

Officials prevented us from meeting.

On getting information about the incident, many SP workers of the district reached the city police station. However, the officials stopped them from meeting the arrested workers. National Secretary and former MLA Anoop Gupta, who reached the police station to get information, accused the police of not only not letting him meet them but also stopping him from having tea and water and doing his daily chores.