'Engines Colliding': Akhilesh Yadav's Swipe On No Full-Time UP Police Chief
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With the appointment of acting police chiefs, the BJP leaders can do whatever they wish, the Samajwadi Party chief alleged.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday claimed the Yogi Adityanath government was making do with acting police chiefs instead of a full-time DGP, as they were more likely to do the ruling party's bidding.
Addressing party workers at an event here, Mr Yadav took a swipe at the BJP over its "double-engine government" slogan, saying "This is the first time since Independence that the state got its third acting DGP in a row. Are the engines of Lucknow and Delhi colliding?"Vijay Kumar, an IPS officer of the 1988 cadre, has been appointed as acting DGP of Uttar Pradesh. Before him, RK Vishwakarma and DS Chauhan served as acting police chiefs of the state.
With the appointment of acting police chiefs, the BJP leaders can do whatever they wish, the Samajwadi Party chief alleged.
Referring to the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which four of the agitating farmers were crushed under the wheels of a convoy of cars in 2021, Akhilesh Yadav said, "BJP members have nothing to do with the law". He also cited the wrestlers' protest demanding the arrest of BJP MP and outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh facing sexual harassment charges to say, "Our daughters had to sit on dharna for justice."