Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state under his rule has seen no cases of mob lynching similar to Alwar as no illegal slaughterhouses are operational.
In an interview with The Times of India, Adityanath said, “Had we not closed down illegal slaughter houses in UP, there would have been maximum number of mob-lynching in UP.”
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The first-time Chief Minister and five-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP also said that it’s obligatory on every state to crack down on lynching incidents. However, refuting the opposition charges that cases of lynching have increased under the BJP government at the Centre, Yogi repeated what Union home minister Rajnath Singh recently said in the parliament – that the worst mob-lynching happened under the Congress rule in 1984.
He said steps like forming “anti-Romeo squads” were taken by his government as a concerted strategy. “In the previous regime, girl students felt insecure as crowd of hooligans stood outside their schools. All such things have now stopped. Crackdown on criminals was necessary to instil a sense of confidence in the people. Crime rate had shot up mainly because of organised crime getting state patronage earlier,” he said.
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