100 Samajwadi Party workers booked for 'vandalising' Maharana Pratap statue in Uttar Pradesh

According to quality bureau PTI study quoting residents, the incidental occurred connected Saturday pursuing enactment main Akhilesh Yadav's roadworthy amusement for 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He was seeking votes for his woman and SP campaigner from Mainpur, Dimple Yadav.

Kotwali Police Station SHO Fateh Bahadur Singh Bhadauria told PTI that the lawsuit was filed connected Saturday aft the constabulary took a suo motu cognizance of the incident. 

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Mainpuri Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar told quality bureau ANI that the SP workers were trying to rise the enactment emblem astatine the statue.

"After the roadshow, immoderate enactment workers came present and tried to rise their party's emblem astatine the statue of Maharana Pratap. We are looking astatine the CCTV footage," helium said.

The Samajwadi Party workers person been booked nether charges of rioting, stoking spiritual hatred, disobeying orders of a nationalist servant, and breach of peace. 

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Following the reports of alleged vandalisation, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condemned the enactment and said it was “insulting".

"This benignant of insulting and contemptuous behaviour of the Samajwadi Party leaders with the statue of nationalist person Maharana Pratap is highly condemnable. I condemn this act..." helium said successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter) successful Hindi.

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami besides condemned the vandalisation and claimed that the look of the enactment pretending to beryllium socialist had been exposed successful beforehand of the public.

"Insulting spiritual scriptures, state fighters, brave soldiers and our large men has go a wont of these nepotistic parties. I person afloat religion that the respected radical of the state volition destruct the divisive and fanatic ideology of the INDI confederation with the powerfulness of 1 vote," helium said. 

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Published: 05 May 2024, 05:38 PM IST