Lucknow: Lucknow police has arrested two Congress workers in the state capital on Sunday for putting up posters displaying criminal records of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other BJP leaders.
The congress hoardings refers to the CM, his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya and five other BJP leaders as “rioters” and asks when they will pay damages The hoarding displayed “criminal record” of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya and five other BJP leaders, including Sangeet Som, Suresh Rana and Sanjeev Balyan.
Police sources here said that the two congress workers Sudhanshu Bajpai and Lalu Kanuajia were arrested for putting up these hoardings in the state capital on Saturday.
Both the leaders were taken in custody from their residences in the early morning after the police lodged FIR against them.
The poster refers to them as “rioters” and asks when they will pay damages, in an apparent response to the hoardings put up by the State government displaying personal details of those accused of vandalism during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last December.
But surprisingly, the police did not take any cognisance so far of a hoarding put on by a SP leader IP Singh in which he said two BJPrape accused leaders Swami Chinmayanand and Kuldeep Singh Senger.