UP Govt has crossed all limits: Priyanka

Lucknow, December 29

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Taking on the Adityanath government over handling of protests against the amended Citizenship Act, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said it has “crossed all limits of inhumanity”

and claimed party worker Sadaf Zafar was arrested on “baseless” charges.

“This insensitive government has separated children from their mother and the older generation from their children,” the Congress general secretary said a day after she had accused the UP Police of manhandling her when she resisted their attempts to stop her from visiting the residence of retired IPS officer SR Darapuri, who was also arrested in connection with the recent anti-CAA protests.

Zafar was arrested here on December 19 while she was live on Facebook from the spot where protests against the amended citizenship law had gone violent. The police had said she was arrested for her involvement in clashes. At least 19 people were killed and hundreds of others injured in the violence in the state. After visiting Darapuri’s family, “Priyanka Gandhi met the family members of Sadaf on Saturday night at her (Priyanka’s) Lucknow residence, and told them that the Congress stands firmly with them,” UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu said.

“UP Government has crossed all limits of inhumanity. Congress worker Sadaf Zafar in a video can be clearly seen telling policemen to arrest those indulging in violence. The police has levelled baseless allegations on Sadaf and put her in jail,” Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.

Hitting back at the Congress leader, UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said that such ‘nautanki’ (theatrics) will not fetch votes for the Congress and what’s left of the party will also be finished. In a tweet, Maurya said it seemed by Priyanka Gandhi’s behaviour that her party has become a ‘danga karao party’ and it cannot tolerate the peaceful atmosphere in UP. — PTI