Other States - Uttar Pradesh   

Withdraw “fake cases” against student leaders: SP

Photo: Subir Roy

Upbeat: Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav with student leaders in Lucknow on Thursday .

LUCKNOW: Emboldened by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s decision to revoke the ban on students’ union elections, the Samajwadi Party has threatened to launch an agitation if “fake cases” against Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha activists are not withdrawn.

The leader of Samajwadi Party’s youth wings and former Chief Minister Mulayam Singh’s son, Akhilesh Yadav said here on Thursday that over a hundred student leaders were sent to jail on fake charges during the party’s agitation against the ban imposed by Ms. Mayawati on union elections. Four student leaders in Allahabad were still in jail, he added.

According to him, the student activists were arrested in Lucknow, Deoria, Ghazipur and other places in the State.

The Samajwadi Member of Parliament from Kannauj said the Government should not waste time in withdrawing the fake cases against the student leaders or else the party would launch an agitation. He attributed the withdrawal of the ban to the Samajwadi Party agitation and said the Chief Minister was forced to reverse her decision in the face of sustained protests by the party.

The student leaders who went to jail would be felicitated by the party president Mulayam Singh soon, the MP said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Withdraw “fake cases” against student leaders: SP
Fourteen injured
Smack recovered
Award for Praveen

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu