Amid din, govt assures guilty won't be spared
LUCKNOW, Aug. 13 -- On the second day of the Monsoon session on Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh government assured the legislative assembly that those responsible for the vandalism of a medieval mausoleum in Fatehpur will not be spared, even as the opposition created a din over the issue.
Parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna informed the House that an FIR has been registered against 10 named and 150 unidentified individuals. Uproar continued in both the assembly and the legislative council on Tuesday, with members raising the Fatehpur incident soon after Question Hour. Leader of the opposition Mata Prasad Pandey criticised the government over the vandalism of the mausoleum in Fatehpur, alleging a pattern under BJP of targeting madrasas and religious sites of Muslims. On Monday, the opposition had disrupted the House, raising the issue of misbehaviour with Pandey. Referring to the incident, he said: "It has become a custom in BJP government to damage madrasas and mausoleums...."
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