Media made a ‘gangster’ out of Atiq: SP chief; Mayawati says UP has turn into ‘encounter Pradesh’

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party regular secretary Ram Gopal Yadav on Sunday blamed the media for making a ‘gangster’ out of Atiq Ahmed.

Yadav admitted that Atiq had quite a few circumstances in direction of him. But not one of many costs in direction of him was confirmed and he was not confirmed accountable by a courtroom docket of laws.

“The media made him a gangster. There are cases where influential men, occupying high positions kill people. But no one terms them as gangsters”, Ram Gopal Yadav knowledgeable media people in his native Safai village in Etawah district.

He moreover added that “so many fake cases are filed against people day in and day out…Atiq Ahmed became MLA in 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1995, and an MP from Phulpur in 2004. It’s not that all goons wins elections. He won for a record three times as an independent candidate.”

Yadav claimed that the killing of Atiq and his brother Ashraf was an organised murder. Recalling the UP CM’s assertion throughout the Assembly that the killers of Umesh Pal and gangsters would
be decimated, Yadav said that the killers of Atiq and Ashraf will not be going to face punishment.

Yadav said that his fears for the lifetime of Atiq’s son bought right here true on Thursday last when Asad was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ in Jhansi.

On the alternative, BSP chief Mayawati often known as the killing of Atiq Ahmed in police custody as heinous as that of Umesh Pal’s killing. Raising extreme questions over the mannequin of functioning of the Uttar Pradesh Government, she said it is going to be increased if the Supreme Court took cognisance of the “extremely serious and worrisome” incident, which was being talked about all through the nation.

In a sequence of tweets, she said, “Now, instead of ‘rule of law by law’ in Uttar Pradesh, how appropriate is it that it becomes ‘encounter Pradesh’? Something to think about.”

Meanwhile, reacting to the killing, Congress regular secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the laws of the nation was paramount and the criminals should be given the harshest punishment all through the ambit of laws.

In a sequence of tweets in Hindi, the Congress chief said that criminals should be given the harshest punishment, nevertheless it should be in step with the laws of the land. Playing with or violating the rule of laws and the judicial course of for any political objective was not correct for democracy.

“Whoever does this, or gives protection to those who indulge in such an act, should also be held responsible and the law should be strictly enforced on that person,” Gandhi said.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party regular secretary Ram Gopal Yadav on Sunday blamed the media for making a ‘gangster’ out of Atiq Ahmed.

Yadav admitted that Atiq had quite a few circumstances in direction of him. But not one of many costs in direction of him was confirmed and he was not confirmed accountable by a courtroom docket of laws.

“The media made him a gangster. There are cases where influential men, occupying high positions kill people. But no one terms them as gangsters”, Ram Gopal Yadav knowledgeable media people in his native Safai village in Etawah district.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

He moreover added that “so many fake cases are filed against people day in and day out…Atiq Ahmed became MLA in 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1995, and an MP from Phulpur in 2004. It’s not that all goons wins elections. He won for a record three times as an independent candidate.”

Yadav claimed that the killing of Atiq and his brother Ashraf was an organised murder. Recalling the UP CM’s assertion throughout the Assembly that the killers of Umesh Pal and gangsters would
be decimated, Yadav said that the killers of Atiq and Ashraf will not be going to face punishment.

Yadav said that his fears for the lifetime of Atiq’s son bought right here true on Thursday last when Asad was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ in Jhansi.

On the alternative, BSP chief Mayawati often known as the killing of Atiq Ahmed in police custody as heinous as that of Umesh Pal’s killing. Raising extreme questions over the mannequin of functioning of the Uttar Pradesh Government, she said it is going to be increased if the Supreme Court took cognisance of the “extremely serious and worrisome” incident, which was being talked about all through the nation.

In a sequence of tweets, she said, “Now, instead of ‘rule of law by law’ in Uttar Pradesh, how appropriate is it that it becomes ‘encounter Pradesh’? Something to think about.”

Meanwhile, reacting to the killing, Congress regular secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the laws of the nation was paramount and the criminals should be given the harshest punishment all through the ambit of laws.

In a sequence of tweets in Hindi, the Congress chief said that criminals should be given the harshest punishment, nevertheless it should be in step with the laws of the land. Playing with or violating the rule of laws and the judicial course of for any political objective was not correct for democracy.

“Whoever does this, or gives protection to those who indulge in such an act, should also be held responsible and the law should be strictly enforced on that person,” Gandhi said.