The party wondered if the state administration's decision to send the meat for forensic test was made to give a communal slant to the raging row.
In a statement, BJP secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said, "Rather than shedding crocodile tears, Akhilesh Yadav should answer as to why his police wanted to do forensic test of meat sample when the issue should have been arresting the culprits of the most unfortunate and barbaric killing in Dadri.
Claiming that the arrest of a homeguard jawan was proof of "lawlessness" in the state being given a communal colour, Singh said it was unfortunate that Yadav had "not been able to deliver" on the mandate of good governance, and therefore was systematically "polarising" the people of the state before the 2017 Assembly elections.
50-year-old Iqlakh was beaten to death and his 22-year-old son Danish son was critically injured by a mob which barged into their house on Monday night following rumours that the family had consumed beef.