About a month ago, Hukum Singh had released a list of 346 families claiming they were forced to leave Kairana which has 85 per cent Muslim population. (File photo)
BJP lawmaker Hukum Singh, who had stoked a controversy by claiming that many Hindus had migrated from Muslim-dominated Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh due to fear, today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to apprise him of the law and order situation in the state.
"Law and order situation is the worst in Western Uttar Pradesh. People are migrating due to fear," he told reporters after the meeting.
The BJP lawmaker from Kairana said he briefed the home minister about the situation in the region.
About a month ago, the lawmaker had released a list of 346 families claiming they were forced to leave Kairana which has 85 per cent Muslim population. Kairana is in Shamli district that had witnessed communal riots in 2013.
Subsequently, he had released another list of 63 families and claimed that they had to flee Kandhla town in Shamli district. "These Hindu families have left under duress," he had said.
However, the BJP leader had made a U-turn after a few days, saying the "migration" of Hindus from Kairana was "not communal" in nature but had more to do with the law and order situation even as he claimed the number of families that had to flee can go up to 400-500.
The Union home minister had said "if some people are forced to leave their native place by any individual or gang, the state government must take proper action."
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had accused BJP leaders of "lying" and being "dishonest" on the issue.
Mr Yadav had claimed that most of the people had left the village about 10 to 15 years ago, while others had left in search of jobs about seven or eight years ago.