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Unprovoked firing at Asafabad: Mulayam

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Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh and party general secretary Amar Singh addressing a press conference in Lucknow on Friday.

LUCKNOW: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh on Friday said the police firing on Gujjar agitators and Samajwadi Party workers in Firozabad district reflected the Bahujan Samaj Party government’s attitude to political protest.

It was unprovoked firing on the Gujjar demonstrators who sat on the rail track at Asafabad, he told a press conference here.

He alleged that the BJP and the BSP had a common agenda of working against the Gujjars.

Mr. Singh accused Ms. Mayawati of going back on her election promise of reservation to Gujjars. He demanded an Assembly session for discussing the Gujjar issue. Mr. Singh demanded a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh each to the seriously injured and Rs 2 lakh to the other injured in the police lathi charge, and release of Ram Sakal Gujjar, the former SP MLAs, Azim Bhai and Hari Om Yadav, and other arrested protesters,

The Samajwadi Party national general secretary Amar Singh, who was present at the press conference, claimed that a news channel was in possession of an audio cassette in which a BSP Member of Parliament and a jailed Independent MLA were discussing measures to kill him (Amar Singh) during the Lok Sabha by-election in Azamgarh.

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