Is this the change PM Modi promised: Cong on Bulandshahr violence

The Congress on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bulandshahr violence asking if "this was the change" he promised the country, and demanded an inquiry under the supervision of a sitting high court judge into the incident.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal also slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alleging he was watching a sound and light show in Gorakhpur with his Chhattisgarh counterpart Raman Singh when the violence happened on Monday.

"Prime Minister Modi before the 2014 elections used to say repeatedly that we will usher in change and also politics of change. I don't know how much change has come," Sibal said at a press conference.

"But from 2014 till now, we have seen not change, but revenge, not change, but fear, not change, but hidden corruption, not change, but politics over Ram, politics over Hanuman...is this the change that Modi ji had promised. Look what kind of a change he has brought about in Bulanshahr," he said.

Sibal said state agencies and the CBI cannot be trusted for a probe and, therefore, an investigation under the supervision of a sitting high court judge should be conducted.

In Hyderabad, Union Minister and BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Tuesday condemned the incident and termed it inhuman. "It is an inhuman act...whoever is responsible for the criminal violent act, stern measures should be taken against them."
Expressing grave concern over the law and order situation in UP, Sibal said, "Your police personnel is being killed by those people who are associated with you."