Policemen live in fear in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh

While the goons in Muzaffarnagar attacked the police and decamped with their weapons, they brutally targeted the cops in Basti.

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Uttar Pradesh police
622 incidents of goons attacking policemen have been reported since the SP government came to power in 2012.

Uttar Pradesh police
622 incidents of goons attacking policemen have been reported since the SP government came to power in 2012.

In Uttar Pradesh even the keepers of law and order are not safe, let alone the common people. The Akhilesh Yadavled Samajwadi Party government on Tuesday confessed this fact in the state Assembly. According to a government report, 622 incidents of goons attacking the policemen have been reported in the state ever since the Samajwadi Party formed the government on March 15, 2012.

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This includes two cases in the last 24 hours in Muzaffarnagar and Basti.

While the goons in Muzaffarnagar attacked the police and decamped with their weapons, they brutally targeted the cops in Basti. At least four policemen sustained injuries in these two cases.

Uttar Pradesh's Parliamentary Affairs minister Azam Khan admitted that such cases were on the rise in recent time. Besides attack on policemen on duty, Khan also admitted that police stations were attacked and ransacked, and cops were injured in Etawah and Auraiya, the fiefs of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Other places where the criminals have attacked police stations include Lucknow, the state capital. Police stations in Agra and Saharanpur have also been ransacked many a times since March 15, 2012.

Trying to defend the government, Khan said, "We will take action against the culprits when there is confirmed information. We are trying to check such incidents. But the previous governments used to refuse even registration of cases."

Suresh Khanna, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, who had raised this issue in the House, alleged it was a general trend that the goons spring back in action whenever the Samajwadi Party government comes to power. He also alleged that the Samajwadi Party leaders provide support and shelter to the criminals.

"Many policemen have been killed in the state since the Samajwadi Party came to power. Even the officers of DSP rank have been killed during the Samajwadi Party's rule. This is proof that the moral of the criminals is very high. Obviously, the common men are living in fear in UP," Khanna said.

Swami Prasad Maurya, leader of the Opposition said, "More than three dozen policemen have been killed in these attacks. But the government is not ready to divulge the actual number. If compared to the Bahujan Samaj Party's rule, we have seen 60 per cent rise in the cases of attack on police during the Samajwadi Party rule."