Addressing a meeting of party workers in Balrampur district, Maurya alleged,”Muzaffarnagar riots were the result of joint conspiracy of BJP and SP and now Mulayam was terming those living in the camps as conspirators.” “He should apologise to the people for his statement,” he said.
After Rahul Gandhi's sudden visit to the relief camps, Yadav had on Monday claimed, “there are no riot victims at all in the camps. There is not even one. You can check. These are people who are conspirators. BJP and Congress have conspired. They have asked people to stay there at night and sit in dharnas. This is conspiracy of the people there. “They (riot victims) have all gone. Congress and BJP are provoking them to rake up the issue till elections,” he had said.
Muslims clerics yesterday sharply reacted to the SP supremo's statement.
“The statement is politically motivated and he (Mulayam) wants to give this issue a political colour”, General Secretary All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Maulana Nizamuddin had told PTI over phone.
