Bulundshahr was rocked with a sensational broad daylight shootout on Tuesday, when half a dozen unidentified miscreants opened fire on newly elected Nagar Palika chairman belonging to Bahujan Samaj Party. The critically injured leader was rushed to hospital where he was battling for his life.
Local police which rushed to the spot along with senior officers suspected political rivalry behind the shoot-out. In the recent Urban Civic Bodies polls, the results of which were announced on last Friday, said BSP leader defeated his rival belonging to Bharatiya Janta Party. Further investigations are on it this regard.
Reports said that Brijesh Sharma aka Gopal Sharma, leader of Bahujan Samaj Party who won the Anoopsaher Nagar Palika Parishad chairman defeating BJP’s Nishant Vashist, had gone on the banks of Ganga to feed fishes on Friday morning. In a surprise move, he was intercepted by half a dozen goons who opened indiscriminate fire in which Sharma was critically injured. Suspecting that Sharma was `dead’, the assailants escaped from the spot. Sharma was rushed to district hospital from where he was referred to another private hospital and was still struggling for survival. The family members of the victim suspected the hands of the BJP leader Nishant behind the attack.
Meanwhile in Mau, the supporters of Naushad Ansari, who won the ward 37 election in the local urban bodies polls recently had pelted stones on the house of another candidate Arshad Jamal, on Monday night. Local police who rushed to the spot claimed that the incident took place just as the supporters of two candidates were engaged in war of words during polls and now after victory of Ansari, his supporters attacked the house of opponents. A case has been registered in this regard.
Meanwhile in another report form Aligarh, hundreds of BJP workers staged a dharna at the Civil Lines police station, seeking an
FIR against District Magistrate, Hrishikesh Bhaskar Yashod, holding him responsible for the Party's defeat in the just-concluded mayoral polls in the State. Angered by the defeat of their candidate from this "BJP
bastion", the irate workers of the Party blamed the district authorities for the names of nearly 90,000 voters allegedly missing from the list and staged the protest on Monday night. BJP leader Manav Mahajan said the city unit chief of the party, Vivek Saraswat, had given an application for lodging a report at the Civil Lines police station on November 29 in this connection and also apprised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the state election commissioner of the matter. For nearly five hours, the protesting BJP leaders were
involved in a heated exchange with senior district officers at
the police station, after Station House Officer Javed Khan expressed his inability to file an FIR against the DM and ADM (city).
On December 1, the day the votes polled in the urban local body elections were counted, BJP leaders had demanded a recounting after it became clear that party nominee Rajeev Kumar was going to lose by a margin of over 10,000 votes from Aligarh. The DM, however, had refused to concede to the demand and BSP candidate Mohammed Furqan was declared elected. Reacting to the protest, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Aligarh, Rajesh Pandey said there was no provision for filing an FIR against the DM in such matters and added that the complaint of the BJP
leader was forwarded to the district election officer and State Election Commission.