The AAP today claimed that its workers from Uttar Pradesh are being harassed for protesting against the gangrape of a woman and her teenage daughter in Bulandshahr and the prevailing "jungle raj" in the state.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh said criminals were running scot-free in the state, led by Akhilesh Yadav, while those protesting against the lawlessness in the state were facing the problem.
"Our workers were protesting against the failing law and order in the state. Yesterday, the Ghaziabad police nabbed three of our workers as if they were hardened criminals and bashed them up," Singh said, adding that an AAP team will also meet Ghaziabad district administration officials and police in this regard.
"This is ironic that rapists and murderers, who spread communal tension, go scot-free and our party workers are arrested for protesting," Singh added.
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Meanwhile, Singh told a press conference in Ghaziabad that the AAP will stage a statewide protest on August 8 against the arrest of its workers today for burning an effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on the collectorate premises.
Around a dozen AAP workers were booked and four arrested for burning Yadav's effigy on the collectorate premises in Ghaziabad on Thursday.
Singh condemned SP leader Azam Khan's statement in which he accused political opponents of "conspiring against and defaming" the Uttar Pradesh government.
