New Delhi, March 30 -- The BJP on Friday hit back at Opposition parties for criticising the Uttar Pradesh Government over the death of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, saying they have the habit of emotionally exploiting every issue to vitiating communal harmony.
While former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi targeted Opposition parties, Alka Rai, a BJP leader and the wife of MLA Krishnanand Rai who was killed at the behest of Ansari, described his death as "divine justice". "I always had full faith in God," she said.
Her son Piyush Rai rejected the suggestion from some opposition parties, including the state's main opposition Samajwadi Party, that there was a conspiracy behind Ansari's death. It is a wrong allegation le...