Black ink was hurled at BJP’s OBC candidate for Ghosi meeting bypoll Dara Singh Chauhan on Sunday whereas he was campaigning there the place a bypoll is scheduled for September 5. The attack, which occurred seconds after he was welcomed in Adri Panchayat (Adri Chatti) space of Ghosi with a garland by his supporters, caught Chauhan off guard because the attacker smeared his face with black ink earlier than fleeing.
Simply earlier than the attack, Chauhan had attended a public assembly at a school in Kopaganj block, concentrating on his rival and SP loyalist Sudhakar Singh, a former lawmaker, who missed the 2022 contest as a consequence of Chauhan’s last-minute change to the SP.
After the SP misplaced the 2022 U.P. polls to the BJP, Chauhan regardless of profitable from Ghosi seat subsequently rejoined the BJP. The ink attacker was later recognized by the police as one Monu Yadav.
The accused escaped after the attack even because the incident heightened political war of words between the BJP and the SP, each accusing one another of having a hand within the incident to defame the opposite. BJP’s ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Get together chief Arun Rajbhar too blamed the SP.
Further superintendent of police (ASP) Mahesh Singh Atri advised media individuals that police groups had been shaped for Monu Yadav’s arrest. Chauhan mentioned the attack mirrored the SP’s rising frustration.
“These individuals (SP) who’re succesful of something, a lot greater crimes and therefore this ink attack is nothing by their requirements,” Chauhan mentioned. “This additionally reveals that the SP has learn the writings on the wall. The recognition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.P. chief minister Yogi Adityanath is now making the SP nervous,” he added.
The SP dismissed the BJP cost. “Who is aware of? For political mileage, perhaps some BJP individuals had been behind the attack,” Samajwadi Get together’s nationwide secretary and state spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary mentioned.
“Politics is full of such baseless allegations,” Chaudhary mentioned on BJP’s cost towards the SP. The end result of the Ghosi bypoll can be identified on September 8.
Over the past couple of years, Uttar Pradesh has constantly witnessed ‘ink assaults’ on politicians. In 2020 and 2021, AAP politicians Sanjay Singh and Somnath Bharti respectively had been subjected to ink assaults and in 2022 Kanhaiya Kumar was equally focused close to the Congress workplace in Lucknow.