Lucknow, Aug 3 (UNI) Samajwadi Party MP Prof Ram Gopal Yadav’s meeting with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday has led to a huge controversy with former allies of SP demanding an explanation. Shivpal Yadav, the estranged uncle of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and president of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL), said that Prof Ram Gopal Yadav was taking up the cause of only a select few.
Prof Yadav had reportedly met the chief minister to draw his attention to false cases being heaped on the SP leaders and workers, particularly the backward and Muslims. “Why did the SP leaders not take up the issue when cases were being filed against Mohd Azam Khan, Nahid Hasan, Shahzil Islam, and other party workers? Fight for justice is only for a select few?” Shivpal Yadav said on Wednesday. In the two-page letter that Prof Ram Gopal Yadav gave to the chief minister, he mentioned how former SP MLA Rameshwar Yadav, his brothers, and their families are ‘being targeted by the Etah police after criminal cases were lodged against them during the recent elections. The letter cites specific instances in detail on how police demolished commercial premises and brick kilns owned by the family and how even the women members.
