Mayawati speaks on Muzaffarnagar violence: Highlights

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati speaks on the Muzaffarnagar violence. Here are the highlights:

• Communal clashes have created greater problems for the people of UP.
• Law and order has deteriorated in UP from the time Samajwadi Party came in to power.
• Samajwadi Party government responsible for increase in crime against women and the communal situation.
• Uttar Pradesh government took action in Muzaffarnagar only after the situation spiralled out of control.
• Recent incidents have proven that there is a constitutional crisis in the state.
• We demand the SP government be dismissed by the Governor and President's rule be imposed.
• I had met the Governor two months ago and requested him to recommend that the SP government be dismissed. But unfortunately, he kept quiet in this regard.
• It seems he became active in this matter now when the Union Home Ministry demanded a report.
• Don't agree to SP when they say the BJP is responsible for this. They should have controlled the situation and not let it get to this state.
• I think the BJP and the SP are hand-in-gloves. Both the parties want to create communal tensions in the run up to the polls.
• I want to tell the people of Uttar Pradesh that they should see through the conspiracy hatched by the BJP and SP.
• In Uttar Pradesh there is 'jungle-raj'.
  
• We don't need to agitate. The SP government has failed terribly in maintaining law and order in the state. Protesting is not going to achieve anything. I have written to the Governor. He has to take action.