Mathura: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav visited Mathura today, several days after the violence unleashed by an armed cult in the city's Jawahar Bagh that left 24 people, including two senior police officers, dead.
Mr Yadav met the families of the killed policemen and assured all help to them. "A judicial inquiry will get to the bottom of this. This incident should not be politicised. Those who are doing it, I want to remind them such incidents have happened under their watch as well."
Nearly a thousand policemen were taken by surprise when they went to evict the cult - Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah - on June 2. Policemen were attacked with swords, grenades and guns and later the group set hundreds of cooking gas cylinders on fire triggering huge explosions, one of which killed its chief Ram Vriksh Yadav.
The Samajwadi Party government has already been under pressure over law and order in the state in the run-up to crucial Assembly elections early next year, and the BJP has launched an all-out offensive against it, threatening a state-wide agitation.
Mr Yadav met the families of the killed policemen and assured all help to them. "A judicial inquiry will get to the bottom of this. This incident should not be politicised. Those who are doing it, I want to remind them such incidents have happened under their watch as well."
24 people including two policemen were killed in Mathura clashes
Nearly a thousand policemen were taken by surprise when they went to evict the cult - Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah - on June 2. Policemen were attacked with swords, grenades and guns and later the group set hundreds of cooking gas cylinders on fire triggering huge explosions, one of which killed its chief Ram Vriksh Yadav.
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The Samajwadi Party government has already been under pressure over law and order in the state in the run-up to crucial Assembly elections early next year, and the BJP has launched an all-out offensive against it, threatening a state-wide agitation.
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