The Opposition leaders on Sunday targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother in front of the police officers, and the media in Prayagraj district, using terms like “mafia raj” and “jungle raj” to describe Uttar Pradesh and even India.
Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, said that stringent action should be taken against those involved in the incident.
“Jungle Raj under BJP Yogi govt in UP. Its USP: Encounter killings, Bulldozer politics & patronising criminals. Enforce rule of law; apprehend perpetrators & punish them stringently,” he said in a tweet.
Trinamool Congress MP Mouha Moitra stated that the country had become a “mafia raj.”
“BJP has turned India into a mafia republic. I will say it here, I will say it abroad, I will say it everywhere because it is the truth. 2 men in custody shot dead in front of a zillion policemen & cameras – this is the death of the rule of law,” she said.
Aside from that, Moitra added that she can even believe that the BJP ordered the shooting in order to ‘deflect attention’ from the repercussions of the Satyapal Malik interview. “Nothing, just nothing, is beyond this government,” she said.
On Saturday night, as police officers escorted the two brothers to a medical college in Prayagraj for a checkup, three men posing as journalists opened fire on them, killing them at point-blank range.
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