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SP Maurya attacks BJP, dissociates himself from Shrikant Tyagi
Attacking the BJP over the Shrikant Tyagi issue, Maurya said: “He (Shrikant) had half a dozen security personnel allotted to him. Is it possible without the blessings of the BJP government?”
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) MLC and former minister in the Yogi government, Swami Prasad Maurya charged the ruling BJP with trying to trap the people of the country in a web of lies when it saw itself cornered over the Shrikant Tyagi episode.
Maurya also attempted to dissociate himself from Tyagi.
The politician Shrikant Tyagi, who was on the run for four days, was arrested by the Noida police on Tuesday in connection with assaulting and abusing a woman at Grand Omaxe Society in Noida.
Soon after the arrest, Noida police commissioner Alok Singh said Tyagi had an ‘MLA’ sticker on one of his vehicles which he said was given to him by his “old political colleague” Swami Prasad Maurya. “We’re verifying this information. His driver had painted the UP government emblem on the car number plate. Probe is underway under Gangster Act,” Singh said.
Swami Prasad Maurya, who was in Kushinagar to campaign for the SP’s Tiranga programme, asking people to hoist flag on their homes from August 9 to August 15, told newspersons: “The BJP is trying to trap the people in the web of its lies and dubiety...I have not been to UP Vidhan Sabha for months. Got no passes made in the last 7 to 8 months. I became an MLC on July 11 and no passes were made since then...I did not give any pass to Shrikant Tyagi...All this is a game of the BJP...The BJP intends to shift the blame on me for its mistake. Of course, I met him (Shrikant Tyagi) in 2017 when I was a BJP leader. Thereafter, he never met me”.
Attacking the BJP over the Shrikant Tyagi issue, Maurya said: “He (Shrikant) had half a dozen security personnel allotted to him. Is it possible without the blessings of the BJP government?”
