Hitting back at Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Shivpal Yadav over the Kairana issue, BJP today said his attack at the party was aimed at hiding the state government's "failures" and accused it of "gagging" protests by imposing prohibitory orders.
BJP also raked up his alleged involvement in the Mathura land grab incident and asked him to resign and order a CBI probe into the matter.
"It is a case of pot calling the kettle black. As an opposition party, the BJP has only exposed the government's failures. Shivpal Yadav has attacked us to hide his government's failures exposed by us," BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
Accusing the state government of being "oppressive", he said "By restricting people's movement invoking Section 144 fo CrPC, it has virtually issued gag orders against democratic protests. It should instead provide security to people who have been forced to migrate from Kairana".
Attacking the Samajwadi Party dispensation, he said it had "sheltered" Ram Vriksh Yadav, the leader of encroachers of Jawahar Bag in Mathura who was killed in clashes with police, for 28 months and did nothing despite receiving over 80 intelligence reports.
Yadav had today trashed charges of "exodus" of people from Kairana and accused the BJP of vitiating the communal atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh for political gains with 2017 Assembly polls in mind.
