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New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, including newly-elected Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, along with five party MPs from Uttar Pradesh, is set to visit Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district on Wednesday, which has witnessed violent clashes that occurred late last month.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Chief Ajay Rai announced that newly-elected Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is also likely to join the delegation. Sambhal District Magistrate (DM) Rajendra Pensiya on Tuesday requested officials from neighboring districts, including Bulandshahr, Amroha, Ghaziabad, and Gautam Buddha Nagar, to prevent Rahul Gandhi from entering Sambhal by stopping him at their district borders.
The Sambhal DM addressed letters to the police commissioners of Gautam Buddha Nagar and Ghaziabad, as well as the superintendents of police in Amroha and Bulandshahr. Meanwhile, in Parliament, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday accused the BJP of orchestrating a “well-planned” conspiracy behind the violence in Sambhal.
He alleged that police personnel used both official and personal weapons, resulting in the deaths of innocent people and injuries to several others after locals pelted stones in protest against police high-handedness.
Congress General Secretary Avinash Pande will also join the party MPs, Rai told the media. Prohibitory orders under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) have been extended until December 31, preventing any entry into Sambhal, where four people were killed and several others injured in violence during a court-mandated survey of a Mughal-era mosque.
On Monday, scores of Congress workers clashed with police as Rai and senior Congress leader P.L. Punia attempted to lead a fact-finding delegation to Sambhal. The police stopped their vehicle at the gate of the Congress office in Lucknow, leading Rai and the workers to stage a dharna.
