 "Kairana exodus: BJP team arrives for on the spot assessment")
A nine-member BJP team arrived at Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district to take stock of the situation following reports of exodus by Hindu families.
The delegation comprising Bagpat MP Satyapal Singh, Saharanpur MP Raghav Lakhan Pal, Aligarh MP Satish Gautam, former Uttar Pradesh DGP Brij Lal, senior BJP leader Suresh Khanna, Aawala MP Dharmendra Kashyap, Bulandshahar MP Bhola Nath Singh, Gorakhpur MLA Radha Mohan and BJP's Human Right Commission Wing national president Sudhir Aggrawal arrived in Kairnan for an on-the-spot evaluation of the situation created by exodus of Hindus.
The Samajwadi Party-led Uttar Pradesh Government is drawing flak from various quarters on the issue.
Talking to reporters in Bahraich on Monday, Union Minister Shripad Naik had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keeping an eye on the incident of migration from Kairana.
Terming the incidents at Kairana and Mathura "serious", Naik said they prove that law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh is dismal.
The Centre has also sought a detailed report from the Uttar Pradesh Government on the migration of people from Kairana village. In a communication, the Union Home Ministry asked the state government to verify the allegations and send a detailed report to it as early as possible. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had earlier said it is unfortunate that people are forced to leave their village in their own country, adding that the state government should take the responsibility.
"If people have to leave their village in their own country, then the state government should take the responsibility. If the state government seeks any help from us, we will definitely provide them," said Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home.
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"The Uttar Pradesh government should take a note of the deteriorating law and order situation and comprehend over it. Hooliganism, hostility and looting, land-related problems etc are rampant in the state, which is adding to people's resentment against the government. The law and order situation has deteriorated to a greater extent and the government must ponder on it. For the development of the state, the government needs to ensure people's safety, which is not happening in Uttar Pradesh," he said.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said it is the habit of the saffron party to rake up such issues just before the polls.
"These BJP people, they first disturbed the environment in UP, they are responsible for Muazzfarnagar riots. He is the leader who spoiled the harmony here," he said.
Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha MP Hukum Singh had released a fresh list of 63 people who, according to him, migrated from Kandhla town in Shamli district. He had earlier released a list of 346 persons who migrated from Kairana to other places owing "threat to their life and property".
He alleged that goons belonging to the ruling Samajwadi Party have created so much terror among poor and weak that they have no option but to migrate to safer places.
The local MP alleged that extortion, land grabbing, crime against women have become the order of the day in the area.