Lucknow: Brother of slain BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, Brijesh Rai, on Friday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and demanded a CBI probe into the daylight killing.

Brijesh, along with former BJP MP from Ghazipur Manoj Sinha, met the Chief Minister at his official residence. The two were reportedly invited by Mr Yadav.

Mr Brijesh, along with Mr Sinha demanded a CBI probe into the killing and claimed that investigations by a Central agency only would satisfy them.

``The situation is such that we would only be satisfied by a CBI probe,'' he reportedly told.

The Chief Minister, while assuring action against the guilty said ``None, no matter who he is, would be spared if found guilty of the crime.''

The Chief Minister also promised at least 10 security personnel to guard family members of the deceased MLA.

``Since 1991, over 15 people's representatives have been killed...these were people respected by their electorate,'' the CM said in an obvious reply to the Opposition's onslaught that during his rule there has been a deterioration in the law and order situation in the State.

The state police, meanwhile, raided a school in Jaunpur for nabbing gangster Munna Bajrangi, one of the 10 accused in the gruesome killing of Mr. Rai and seven others in the Ghazipur district on Tuesday last.

A police team raided a school in Newaria area last night in search of the Prem Prakash alias Munna Bajarangi, who hails from this eastern district of the State, police superintendent Abhay Kumar Prasad said.

The BJP MLA from Mohamdabad (Ghazipur), alongwith seven others, was murdered on the Ghazipur-Ballia border on Tuesday last. A case has been registered against 10 persons including controversial independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari, his Samajwadi Party MP brother Afzal Ansari and Munna Bajarangi.

One of the ten accused, Ejaz Ahmed, also the brother-in-law of Mukhtar and Afzal, has surrendered at a Ghazipur court.

BJP unit of UP has intensified its protest against the killing of party legislator Krishnanand Rai, taking out a procession in the State Capital to press their demand for a CBI probe into the incident.

A procession led by the state BJP President Keshari Nath Tripathi started from `Parivartan Chowk,' and culminated into a public meeting near Vidhan Bhawan. The party said it would raise the issue on the floor of the House when it meets again on Monday after a brief break.

Waiving party flags, the processionists raised anti-government slogans while urging prompt action in the case.

BJP General Secretary Rajnath Singh continued to sit on a `dharna' in Varanasi for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday.

The Chief Minister, who had spoken to him over phone a couple of days back, could not convince him to end his `dharna'. -- UNI

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