UP Polls: Unidentified assailants pelted stones at the convoy of Union Minister SP Singh Baghel, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Mainpuri’s Karhal seat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, late in the evening. A car running in the convoy was also damaged due to this. The security of SP Singh Baghel has been increased after the attack in Atikullapur village of Karhal assembly constituency of Mainpuri. He has now been given Z category security.
BJP candidate from Karhal constituency SP Singh Baghel has been given Z category security by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), news agency ANI reported on Wednesday. However, the ANI report said that on February 11, four days before the Tuesday evening incident, the Union Minister of State for Law and Justice was provided Z-category security cover. It said that earlier Baghel was being given ‘Y+’ category of armed central security cover.
Agra MP SP Singh Baghel is the BJP candidate from Karhal assembly seat. Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav is contesting the assembly elections from here. Akhilesh is contesting elections for the first time. On Tuesday evening, when Baghel was returning from campaigning, his convoy was attacked with stones and sticks near Atikullapur village. SP Madhuban Kumar, the police in-charge of the area, said on Wednesday that Karhal police had reached the spot after getting information about the said incident.
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Kumar told that the police is probing the matter and there is complete peace in the area now. He said that the information about stone pelting has been given by the Union Minister. On the basis of whatever complaint is received, legal action will be taken after registering a case. UP ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that last evening, information was given by Union Minister SP Singh Baghel at police station Karhal that his convoy was attacked.
Kumar said that he named two persons, 20-25 others unidentified. Taking action, the police arrested one named person and one unknown. Meanwhile, Union Information and Broadcasting and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday lodged a complaint at the Election Commission office in Lucknow regarding the attack on Baghel’s convoy.
He said that on February 15, in Karhal, Union Minister S.P. Singh Baghel was attacked by goons of SP. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Whenever Mainpuri’s name comes up in every election, SP’s goons and workers do the work of carrying out such incidents in Mainpuri.
The Union Minister said that we have demanded from the Election Commission that strict action should be taken against the goons and workers of SP. Every polling booth should have CCTV cameras on election day. Flag march should be done a day before the election.
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