Akhilesh Yadav Criticizes UP Government Over Hathras Stampede Arrests

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has criticized the Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly hiding its failure in the Hathras stampede by making minor arrests. He claimed these arrests are part of a conspiracy and called for a judicial inquiry.

Yadav stated, “To hide its failure in the ‘Hathras incident’, the UP government wants to shirk responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of people by making minor arrests. If this happens, it will mean that no one has learned any lesson from the administrative failure in such events, and such accidents will keep repeating in the future.”

He further added, “The UP government is needlessly arresting people who were away from the original venue with a specific motive and is preparing to hold them guilty after the arrest. These arrests are a conspiracy in themselves. There should be an immediate judicial inquiry into these arrests so that the game of the BJP government in UP can be exposed before the public.”

Yadav also mentioned, “If the BJP government says that it had nothing to do with such an event, then the BJP government has no right to stay in power. Most of the poor people who attended this programme were unhappy, exploited, oppressed, deprived, suppressed, on this basis it also means that the BJP government has no concern for such people. Whereas the government’s attention should first be directed towards such people.”

The main accused in the Hathras stampede incident, Devprakash Madhukar, was produced before the CJM Court in Hathras on Saturday. Madhukar, who was absconding, was finally arrested on July 5, 2024, in New Delhi. Two other accused, Ramprakash Shakya and Sanju Yadav, were arrested on July 6, 2024.