SP govt victimising those who voted for BJP: Allahabad MP

Newly-elected MP from Allahabad Shyama Charan Gupta today charged the SP government in Uttar Pradesh with "victimisation" of people who voted for BJP in the Lok Sabha elections, and threatened to sit on a dharna or undertake a fast-unto-death in protest.
"The BJP has achieved a historic mandate...Unfortunately, the ruling Samajwadi Party seems unwilling to take its electoral drubbing sportingly and is shamefully facilitating victimisation of those whom it suspects of having voted for us," Gupta said in a statement here.
The industrialist-turned-politician, who snapped his over a decade-old association with the Samajwadi Party recently to fight the election on a BJP ticket, alleged "the SP nominee from the Allahabad seat seems unable to reconcile himself to his defeat".

He alleged that the SP nominee "is putting pressure on the police and the local administration to implicate those who did not vote for him in false criminal cases".
Gupta, who had fought as an SP candidate from Phulpur in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, defeated the party's two-time MP Kunwar Reoti Raman Singh in the recently-concluded elections.
"Not only this, the people of both rural and urban areas in my constituency are experiencing a further deterioration in the already pathetic power situation. This is no coincidence...," he said.
"Ever since the results were declared on May 17, not a single day has passed when I have not received complaints of harassment by the administrative machinery at the behest of the ruling party in the state.

"If the state government does not mend it ways, I may be compelled to sit on a dharna or even a fast unto death," the 69-year-old MP said.