Shoe hurled at SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: A day after an ink assault on BJP candidate for Ghosi bypoll Dara Singh Chauhan, Samajwadi Get together nationwide basic secretary Swami Prasad Maurya confronted the same scenario when a person dressed as a lawyer flung a shoe at him in Lucknow on Monday. Maurya wasn’t harm because the shoe brushed previous his arm.
Later, SP nationwide president Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of plotting the incident which came about at a mahasammelan organised by Maurya to pay tributes to legends from the Maurya group and Dalit social reformers on the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow.
Maurya is a distinguished OBC chief who had defected to the SP from the BJP simply earlier than the 2022 meeting elections. He has been making headlines for looking for deletion of sure verses from the Ramcharitmanas which, in response to him, had been derogatory and disrespectful in direction of ladies, Dalits and tribals.
Extra not too long ago, he was within the information for his claims that a number of main temples in India had been constructed over the stays of Buddhist monasteries and seats of studying. The SP chief, who was scheduled to deal with the occasion however had not reached the venue on the time of the incident, alleged that the assailant was a BJP member.
“The BJP is behind this. The same incident had occurred in Ghosi on Sunday and BJP males had been behind it. The BJP desires to dissuade us from speaking concerning the rights of the underprivileged,” he stated. Extra DCP, East Zone, Syed Ali Abbas, advised TOI that Samajwadi Get together (SP) employees on the IGP had apprehended the youth recognized as Akash Saini, 25, who’s a resident of Sairpur in Madiaon in Lucknow.
He has been taken underneath police custody and booked underneath the fees of CrpC 151 (breach of peace). “Akash was allegedly dressed as a lawyer and was accused of hurling a shoe at SP chief Swami Prasad Maurya in the course of the backward lessons’ conclave,” stated Abbas. The officer stated that when cops interrogated him as to why he dedicated such an act, Akash replied that he was sad with Maurya’s remarks on the Ramcharitmanas. In November 2022, Akash was booked after a video went viral the place he was seen dressed as a sadhu and firing in air from a country-made pistol on the terrace of his home.