Noida (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday addressed a rally in Gautam Buddh Nagar’s Bisahada village, home to Mohammad Akhlaq who was allegedly lynched by a mob, and said the Modi government was working for all sections of the society.
He accused the previous governments of dividing people on the basis caste and indulging in “politics of appeasement” as he spoke in the village where Akhlaq was allegedly lynched in 2015 over suspicion of cow slaughter and storing beef in his house.
The accused in the case, Vishal Singh, was sitting in the front row and cheering the CM along with his friends. A report said that some other accused in the Akhlaq lynching case were also seen at the rally. However, the report couldn’t be confirmed. Accused Vishal Singh, son local BJP leader Sanjay Rana, had then said that he was being falsely implicated in the case.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi took a jibe at the BJP for allowing a lynching accused at the rally. He said on Twitter: “The BJP’s rally organizers have previously prevented people from attending rallies if they were wearing black; but a man accused of such a heinous crime gets first-row tickets.”