UP govt plays politics in giving out financial assistance: BJP

BJP today accused Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of indulging in politics and discriminating on the basis of religion while giving financial assistance to kin of those who die in the line of duty.
"Earlier the government was discriminating with the people of the state in the name of caste and religion, but now it has started discriminating among the martyrs as well," BJP chief spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak alleged while talking to the reporters here.
He said that while Rs 50 lakh was given to family members of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq, it has taken no such initiative even after one week of murder of station officer R P Dwivedi in Allahabad.

SHO of Bara police station Dwivedi was shot dead on June 13 by some unidentified persons when he was trying to stop their vehicle.
Pathak alleged that while the CM went to meet Haq's family members, not a single senior officer has met Dwivedi's kin.
"What type of politics and policy is this. Why this discrimination in martyrdom," he questioned.

He said that there should be a uniform policy in extending financial assistance to the families of policemen, who lay down their lives in discharge of their duties.
The chief spokesman said that while no one enquired about the family of Rajendra Mishra, who died in police custody in Lucknow, rupees five lakh financial assistance was announced by the CM in custodial death of Shakeel in Ghaziabad.

Pathak demanded that the UP government should give Rs 50 lakh assistance to families of Dwiwedi and policemen Rahul Rathi, who was shot dead by criminals in Saharanpur district on June 5.