Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday pointedly accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of hounding his party MLA Vijay Misra, prime accused in the life attempt on UP Registration and Stamps Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi in Allahabad three month ago.
Two persons including a correspondent of the Indian Express had died in the blast.
Reacting sharply to the Maya government's decision to announce a cash reward of Rs 250,000 on Vijay Misra, the Samajwadi Party chief said, "I have reason to believe that the poor MLA has been falsely implicated in the attack on Nandi and now Mayawati is out to get him eliminated."
He told mediapersons in Lucknow, "Besides Mayawati herself, two ministers of her cabinet and the state director general of police Karamveer Singh were also bent upon getting Misra killed."
Mulayam said, "Considering that Vijay Misra was not traceable for quite sometime, I would not be surprised if they have already got him killed in a fake encounter."
According to Mulayam, "My party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav has already written two letters in this regard to the chief minister, who has not cared to even send a reply; that was followed by a complaint to the state Governor."
He further sought to point out, "Just imagine ever since the poor fellow was elected to the state assembly, he has not been able to spend any time in his constituency and be amidst the lakhs of people who have elected him, because the present government has been after his blood, implicating him in one criminal case after another."
What pained him even more was that Vijay Misra's plea to the assembly speaker Sukhdeo Rajbhar too had fallen on deaf ears. "Even the speaker has not cared to do anything on complaints," Mulayam said.
