He attacked BJP and union home minister Rajnath Singh, in particular, for not providing any intelligence alert on Mathura.
Lucknow: The newly elected Rajya Sabha member, Amar Singh, on Sunday, attacked the BJP and union home minister Rajnath Singh, in particular, for not providing any intelligence alert on Mathura.
“The union home ministry did not provided the state government any inputs about the presence of Naxal and Maoist elements from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Orissa who were present inside the Jawahar Bagh”, he said and added that it was because of their presence that the police raid took a violent turn.
Mr Singh strongly defended the Akhilesh government and said that the government was simply implementing the High Court which called for evacuation of the squatters.
He said that a small contingent of police force was deliberately taken to avoid a confrontation as there were reports of women and young children being present order in Jawahar Bagh. “Instead of praising our efforts to ensure minimum collateral damage, we are being blamed”, he said.
