Mathura jewellers' murder case: Crimes under Yogi outmatches those under Akhilesh by a huge margin, says Raj Babbar

The Yogi Adityanath government came into power with a promise of improving law and order in Uttar Pradesh. However, ever since the government assumed power, the condition of law and order has been deteriorating in the state, giving the Opposition a much-needed issue to be used against the Yogi government. Not only the Opposition, even the BJP workers are now raising fingers on the modus operandi of the government.

Although the Mathura police claims to have worked out the dual murder and jewelry loot in the city that took place earlier this week by arresting 5 of the culprits, the anger of the people has not yet come down, with the jeweller community demanding better safety arrangements and weapons licenses on priority basis.

Sympathising with the plight of the businessmen who are living in terror in the state, constantly threatened by criminals, UP Congress chief and RS MP Raj Babbar met the families of the jewellers who were attacked in Mathura and Agra, claiming that the number of crimes committed in the past 60 days of Yogi government had outmatched the number of crimes in the entire five years of the previous government's tenure.

Commenting on Mathura MP and UP Cabinet Minister Shrikant Sharma, Babbar asked why was Sharma silent on the deteriorating law and order situation in his own district. He asked what was Sharma doing for the development of Mathura district.

Commenting on Mathura MP Hema Malini, he said that after such a heinous crime was committed in Mathura, the MP should have camped in the district, but it was a surprise that let alone meeting the affected family, Hema Malini did not even come to Mathura, even when the whole Mathura was shut down in protest of the killings.

Babbar also met the family of Dinesh Agrawal, the jeweller who was shot in the Runakta area of Agra and robbed of jewelry worth Rs. 20 lakh. The family of the jeweller informed that the police is claiming to have found a trace of the criminals involved in this loot but how true this claim was, is still doubtworthy.

Babbar assured the family that the Congress party is standing with the jeweller community and fixed the Agra police's liability of recovery of the looted jewelry and arrest of the criminals.

Babbar also reached the hospital where Dinesh Agrawal was admitted and commented to India Today that it was only God's mercy that Dinesh Agrawal was alive after such a deadly attack. He said that the BJP used to call the Samajwadi Party rule as "Jungleraaj", but the maximum number of crimes are happening under BJP rule, which clearly indicated that the law and order situation was a lot better in UP under the Akhilesh government.

Agra Vyapar Mandal president T N Agrawal led a delegation of Agra businessmen that met DGP Sulkhan Singh recently and demanded better security for the jewellers and priority licensing of weapons for personal safety. Agrawal declared that if the assailants of Dinesh Agrawal were not arrested within three days, the businessmen of Agra will come on the streets in protest of the weak law and order state in the district.

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