BJP intoxicated with power: Jayant on Meerut municipal house ruckus

Meerut (UP): RLD chief Jayant Choudhary Monday said the BJP was "intoxicated with power" as he attacked the ruling party over an incident of alleged beating of opposition councilors in a municipal corporation board meeting here.

Members of the BJP and opposition parties came to blows during a Meerut Municipal Corporation Board meeting recently, with both sides accusing each other of insulting and attacking their councillors.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal president reached Zahidpur on Monday and met the councilors. "In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP leaders intoxicated with power use punches," he told reporters.

"After hearing this matter, I have come here considering it my moral responsibility. The victims are still being threatened, but they are firm and I am with them in their fight. If there is a panchayat, I will also participate in it," he said.

The Rajya Sabha MP said he wanted to ask Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath whether the punches of his MLAs and ministers are heavier or the rights of the public representatives who raise issues directly related to public.

"Yogi Adityanath should think that with such people in his team, how will there be justice and law and order? Yogiji himself should take action on this," he said.

A political row had erupted after the incident with the Samajwadi Party alleging that Dalit councillors were targeted by the BJP members, who denied the charge.