The challenge of the homicide of Umesh Pal, a key witness within the homicide of BSP MLA Raju Pal in 2005, triggered a heated debate between BJP and SP within the Uttar Pradesh meeting after CM Yogi Adityanath stated that SP was harbouring criminals and mafia within the state. Replying to the movement of due to the governor’s handle within the meeting on Saturday morning, the CM stated that decisive motion could be taken in opposition to the criminals, saying ‘mafia ko mitti mei mila denge’.
Umesh Pal was shot lifeless in Prayagraj on Friday night at his residence by unidentified attackers. One man shot Umesh Pal when he was getting out of his automobile, whereas others hurled crude bombs. Two of safety guards deployed by the UP govt have been additionally injured within the assault. Umesh Pal was taken to a hospital the place he succumbed in the course of the therapy. The situation of considered one of his bodyguards is important.
Umesh Pal was a primary witness within the Raju Pal homicide in 2005, who was shot lifeless in broad daylight in Prayagraj on January 25, months after profitable the Allahabad (West) meeting seat in a by-election by defeating Khalid Azim, brother of former SP MP Atiq Ahmed, a mafia don turned politician. The by-election was held after sitting MLA Atiq Ahmed was elected to the Lok Sabha within the basic elections on a SP ticket.
Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf are the principle accused within the case and are at the moment lodged in jail. The homicide case is being probed by the CBI, and 10 individuals have been named within the cost sheet filed within the case, together with Atiq and Khalid.
As the important thing accused within the Raju Pal homicide case are SP leaders, CM Yogi Adityanath accused the get together of patronising criminals, evoking a robust response from Akhilesh Yadav in the home. Talking in regards to the Umesh Pal homicide, the CM requested, ‘these criminals and these mafias, after all, who harboured them? Is it not true that the mafia against whom the FIR was filed by the victim’s household was made MP by Samajwadi Party?’
‘You will harbour criminals, put garlands on them, and then you create a scene?’ the CM stated to the SP MLAs who began to object to his feedback. Akhilesh Yadav requested which legal is member of which get together, and alleged that Yogi Adityanath was not naming Bahujan Samaj Party as a result of BJP has a friendship with BSP. To this, the CM replied by asking that’s it not true that Atiq Ahmed, in opposition to whom the sufferer’s household filed the FIR, just isn’t a legal patronised by SP.
Saying that the UP govt will end the mafia within the state, Yogi stated, ‘I am saying in this house, we will reduce the mafia to the ground’. He stated that SP has not learnt something besides patronising ciminals, and crime is stuffed of their blood. He gave particulars of how Atiq Ahmed turned MLA and MP a number of instances both with the help of SP or on SP tickets.
Akhilesh Yadav objected to feedback by the CM, saying the CM can’t say ‘mafia ko mitti mei mila denge’. He stated that is the incorrect language, and solely the legislation can take motion in opposition to the mafia, not the federal government. The speaker countered him by saying that there’s nothing incorrect in promising in opposition to the mafia, however the SP chief didn’t relent, saying it’s incorrect to say ‘mafia ko mitti mei mila denge’.
Yogi Adityanath taunted SP additional on this, stating how the get together is opposing taking motion in opposition to criminals. He stated that yesterday’s incident in Prayagraj is tragic, and the culprits gained’t be spared. He questioned why the chief of the opposition is so disturbed by the promise to crush the mafia within the state. He stated that in the course of the SP rule, the mafia was patronised by the ruling get together, they used to really feel proud in glorifying the mafia, and the federal government used to bow right down to the skilled mafia, and now his authorities is on a mission to complete the identical skilled mafia.
It is notable that Atiq Ahmed is a five-time MLA from Allahabad, he gained as an impartial in 1989, 1991 and 1993. He gained the meeting seat from an SP ticket in 1996, after which gained in 2002 from Apna Dal. In 2004, he gained the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat from SP. He was expelled by SP within the yr 2008, and he contested the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Apna Dal, which is misplaced. He contested the polls from Prayagraj after he was arrested within the Raju Pal homicide case. Atiq Ahmed contested the 2012 meeting polls from jail and misplaced to Raju Pal’s widow Puja Pal. Before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he was once more inducted into SP and contested the polls from Shrawasti seat, which he misplaced to BJP.
Apart from the Raju Pal homicide case, Atiq Ahmed can also be going through a number of different legal circumstances together with circumstances of assault, kidnapping, torture and so forth.