Som said if the Muslims in India do not have faith in Indian scientists, the Prime Minister and the police administration of the country, then they should leave India and go to Pakistan.
SAMBHAL (UP): In provocative remarks apparently made over opposition to Covid-19 vaccine, BJP MLA Sangeet Som on Tuesday said some Muslims did not trust the country s scientists. Unfortunately some Muslims do not have faith in the country s scientists and police. They do not have faith in the Prime Minister also. They have faith in Pakistan and can go there, but doubt the scientists, Som told reporters in Chandausi without substantiating his charge.
On Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti who was arrested on Monday, Som said he has spent some months in jail and so he is speaking the language used by gundas .
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has initiated the process of withdrawing cases related to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots against three BJP lawmakers.
Rajiv Sharma, a government counsel, told reporters in Muzaffarnagar on Thursday that he had moved an application in a local court to withdraw the cases against the three leaders Suresh Rana, Kapil Dev and Sangeet Som, the MLAs of Thanabhawan, Muzaffarnagar and Sardhana, respectively.
“The state government had sought my opinion on the withdrawal of the cases and I gave a report that it was possible. Finally, the government asked me to move the application in court to exonerate these leaders,” Sharma said. “Now it is the discretion of the court to decide.”
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In the umpteenth order of its kind reversing the criminalisation of dissent, Allahabad high court quashed an FIR against a man who criticised the Yogi Adityanath government. Yashwant Singh’s crime was to tweet that “UP CM has transformed the state into a jungle raj in which no law and order prevails”. By lodging an FIR against Singh for such remarks falling squarely within the constitutionally guaranteed right to dissent irrespective of their truth, the Kanpur Dehat police have in effect certified his opinion. If Lalu Prasad’s government delivered “jungle raj” to Bihar, Adityanath’s has gone one up by silencing the very mention of jungle raj.