The girl’s physique was present in a sack hours after she went lacking
Lucknow:
A 23-year-old Dalit girl’s physique present in a sack in Uttar Pradesh’s Karhal constituency this morning has sparked a political storm after her household alleged {that a} native Samajwadi Party employee had been pressuring her towards voting for BJP within the bypolls being held at this time.
Police mentioned Prashant Yadav and Mohan Katheria have been arrested in a case registered on a criticism by the lady’s father. “The mother and father of the lady have mentioned the accused killed her as a result of she needed to vote for the BJP,” Mainpuri district police chief Vinod Kumar mentioned.
The sufferer’s father alleged that Prashant Yadav got here to their house three days again and requested her which get together she would vote for. She replied she would vote ‘lotus’ — BJP’s image — as a result of her household acquired a house underneath the PM Awas Yojana. Yadav then threatened her and requested her to vote for ‘cycle’ — the Samajwadi Party’s election image, the lady’s father alleged.
The BJP has launched a scathing assault on the Samajwadi Party over the lady’s loss of life.
“At Karhal in Mainpuri district, Samajwadi Party’s Prashant Yadav and his aides brutally murdered a Dalit daughter solely as a result of she refused to vote for ‘cycle’,” state BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary mentioned in a put up on X.
Samajwadi get together’s Karhal candidate Tej Pratap Yadav mentioned there have to be an intensive probe and the responsible should face powerful punishment. Party spokesperson Rajendra Choudhary informed PTI, “This is a conspiracy to defame the Samajwadi Party by the BJP, which frequently engages in such actions. This has nothing to do with the SP.”
Separately, the get together’s deal with on ‘X’ put up a put up, alleging that police have been intimidating voters in Karhal within the title of patrolling.
The allegations surrounding the lady’s loss of life come amid a large blame recreation between the ruling BJP and the Opposition Samajwadi Party as 9 Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh vote in at this time’s bypolls. These seats — Katehari, Karhal, Mirapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur and Kundarki — have been vacated after the sitting MLAs have been elected to Lok Sabha. In reality, it was Akhilesh Yadav who represented Karhal within the Assembly earlier than being elected to Lok Sabha as Kannauj MP.
Since this morning, Mr Yadav has been accusing the state administration and police of blocking voters and urged folks to not return with out casting their vote. The BJP, then again, has mentioned the Samajwadi Party is aware of it’s dropping and its allegations replicate its frustration.