Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is misusing official machinery to target SP cadres.

Yadav accused the BJP government at the Centre as well as in UP are engaged in killing democracy.

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He said that the BJP government, which has allegedly failed on every front, is now putting Samajwadi Party leaders and workers in jail by filing false cases to divert the attention of the public.

The SP president, who was in Jhansi on Monday visited the district jail to meet former legislator Deep Narain Singh Yadav. He was in jail for 30 minutes and assured the SP leader that the party will do everything for his release.

Later, talking to media persons, Akhilesh Yadav said that unemployment, inflation, atrocities and crime are at their peak in the BJP government. To hide these failures, the BJP government at the Centre and UP is filing cases against the opposition leaders and sending them to jail.Officials working under pressure from the government,” he charged.

“In the past eight years BJP government has handed over India’s market to China, that is why the government is now running away from this issue in the Parliament,” he alleged.

The SP president said police and administration officials are forced to work under the pressure of the government. He even disclosed that when he talked to the officials many times, they say that we are taking action under pressure.

Yadav said that the BJP has killed democracy, but the people of the Samajwadi Party will not bow down to the dictatorship of the BJP.

“SP will always stand with youth, women, government employees and weaker sections. Very soon a meeting of the SP leaders and workers will be held at the party headquarters and will decide on the outline of the agitation to be launched by the party.