Compensate Prayagraj boats damaged by authorities: SP, BJP ally
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Nishad Party, an ally of the ruling BJP, too has demanded motion fall-out of anti-mining drive
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities in Uttar Pradesh of “kicking the belly” of the Nishad group, an OBC (Other Backward Class) caste, after boats belonging to them have been allegedly damaged by the police and administration in Prayagraj district throughout an anti-mining drive.
Following the incident, the BJP’s personal ally within the State, the Nishad Party, has additionally demanded motion in opposition to the police and administrative officers who allegedly damaged the boats and lathi-charged Nishad boatmen and labourers, women and men, close to the Yamuna river on February 4.
“By breaking the boats of the Nishad community in Prayagraj, the BJP government has kicked on their bellies,” Mr. Yadav tweeted.
The BJP authorities ought to instantly apologise to the Nishad group and supply them new boats for livelihood, Mr. Yadav demanded, as he accused the State authorities of concentrating on the poor.
Nishads or Mallahs are a gaggle of riverine communities historically engaged with river-bed farming, boating, fisheries and different related actions.
On February 4, a joint group of police personnel and administrative and mining officers landed up at Mohabbatganj and Baswar village within the Trans-Yamuna space of the district, after complaints of alleged sand mining within the river. Dozens of individuals on boats have been digging sand out of the Yamuna, stated the Prayagraj police.
Officials defined to the individuals there that they have been participating in unlawful work and unlawful mining, and that authorized motion may very well be taken in opposition to them, stated the police.
Local tv channels and portals confirmed police chase individuals assembled on the spot with batons with a purpose to evict them.
Sanjay Nishad, president of the Nishad Party, whose son Praveen Nishad gained the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Sant Kabir Nagar on a BJP ticket, in a press release accused the police of lathi cost on “innocent women and children” for alleged unlawful sand mining, and using an earthmover to interrupt some boats belonging to the group.
Prayagraj police, nevertheless, in a press release stated that when the official group reached there, the individuals on the spot began to get “aggressive”, and insisted on carrying on with the mining. An individual from the group then pelted stones that hit the earthmover, police stated.
