While presenting a report card on the completion of two years of his government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that not even a single incident of rioting has taken place under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule and that the state's law and order had become a model for the country.
Well, Adityanath needs a reality check as his claim is nowhere close to the truth.
According to a reply by Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir to the Lok Sabha on February 6, 2018, 822 incidents of communal violence took place in India in 2017, out of which 195 were reported from Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
In these incidents, 44 people lost their lives and 542 people were reported to be injured.
Three major incidents of violence have been reported after Adityanath-led BJP came to power in the state.
A communal clash erupted on January 26, 2018 in Kasganj, killing one and injuring three people. Later, a curfew was imposed in the region.
In December, 2018, police officer Subodh Kumar Singh was killed by a mob when the former went to control the violence caused over the slaughter of 25 cows in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr. The police became the target of the mob when they tried to clear a road which had been blocked by the angry protesters. The uncontrollable mob started chasing police and threw stones at them.
Yogi Adityanath should read more before making such false claims.