On Wednesday, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party walked out from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, after the government’s statement over the law and order situation of the state.
During the Zero hour, opposition party leader Ahmed Hasan raised the issue of deteriorating law and order condition in Uttar Pradesh under the rule of Yogi Adityanath government. He said that since Yogi government came to power the crime rate has increased four times in the state. He further said that In the 100 days of the BJP’s rule, 1,229 cases of murder, 1,321 incidents of rape and 1,201 incidents of dacoity have been reported.
Responding to this allegation over law and order condition, Leader of the House and Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said, that during the rule of SP and BSP no cases were registered, which boosted the morale of the criminals. He added that crimes happened that time also but the difference is just that they were not registered. Sharma said that now crimes are reported in big numbers because of the initiatives taken by the Yogi government and by providing the provision of filing complaints online also.
Reacting on the reply of the government about the law and order situation, the SP and BSP leaders got angry and expressed their dissatisfaction by walking out from the UP Legislative Council.
Another issue of levying of electricity charges to government schools at commercial rate was also raised by the opposition. Responding to this state energy minister Shrikant Sharma assured that the government will look into this matter seriously. He said that the government only aimed at providing electricity to all equally. There are over 1.5 lakh primary schools, of which there is no provision of electricity in 60,000 such schools. The effort of the government is to make electricity available in all the government schools by October 2017,” the minister said.