Law and order in UP at an all-time low: Mulayam

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday alleged the killing of five Dalits in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district suggested that law and order in the state was at an "all-time low" and threatened to launch street protests if "prevailing lawlessness" was not stopped.
    
"The gunning down of the Dalit family was an example of the prevailing state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh where law and order is  at an all-time low", Yadav said here.
    
Charging the government with doing very little following the murder, Yadav said only a station house officer had been suspended while the Senior superintendet of police, Etawah, S.R. Aditya has gone scot free.
    
Referring to the recent attack on the office of SP's Lok Sabha member from Rampur Jaya Prada allegedly by BSP workers, Yadav asked the government to rein in BSP workers from taking law into their hannds.
    
"In a state which has a woman Chief Minister, the office of a woman MP is being attacked", he said adding the state government should immediately bring a halt to "such anti- social activities being perpetrated by BSP activists".
    
"The state government should not test the patience of SP workers by indulging in such unlawful activities or else they would be forced to take to the streets to protest against the prevailing lawlessness in the state", he said.
    
Yadav alleged a large number of SP leaders and workers were being targetted and being implicated in false cases by the state govenrment.