BJP today asserted that the "goondaraj" in Uttar Pradesh will be deliberated at its National Executive meeting and demanded that Mathura's Jawahar Park be named after SP Mukul Dwivedi and SI Santosh Yadav, who were killed by encroachers during a drive to evict them.
"The goondaraj in the state is an issue for us. It will be part of National Executive," party's media head Shrikant Sharma told reporters.
The Executive is meeting for two days in Allahabad on June 12-13.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also likely to use the violence, which left 29 people dead, to flay the Samajwadi Party government in his rally in the city on June 13 evening.
The saffron party believes that law and order can be a strong plank against Akhilesh Yadav government as the state gears up for the assembly polls early next year.
Sharma also said that he has written a letter to Yadav demanding that the park be named after the killed cops and there should be a CBI probe into the incident.
The incident was a "direct failure" of the chief minister, he alleged, adding that despite prior intelligence warnings of the presence of heavy arms and ammunition with the encroachers police was sent to the park unprepared and under instructions that it should not use force against them.
"These two officers did not die but were made to die by this state government," he said, alleging the government was preparing to lease out the park to Ram Vriksh Yadav, the leader of encroachers. He also died during the clash.
BJP has started a drive, asking people to inform it about public land encroached by "goons linked to the Samajwadi Party". All such encroachment will be cleared if it is voted to power, it has promised.
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Reacting to the controversial comments of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Chairman Ram Bahadur Rai targeting B R Ambedkar, Sharma said one individual's remarks should not be seen as a reflection on the government.
The government, he said, had taken several measures to promote Ambedkar unlike other parties which used him. Rai, he added, has also claimed that his comments were "distorted" by a magazine which had published the interview.
