Prayagraj, Oct. 4 -- After Uttar Pradesh LoP and Samajwadi Party leader Mata Prasad Pandey was stopped from visiting Bareilly following September 26 protests, Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP government, accusing them of "communalising and polarising" every issue.

Speaking to ANI, the Congress MP said, "The central and UP governments are making every effort to communalise and polarise every issue. They have nothing left to tell the public. However, if the Leader of the Opposition, Mata Prasad Pandey, or the MP in Bareilly wanted to appeal for peace, they should have been allowed to go... Peace should be maintained there..."

Earlier today, Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Mata ...