Telangana encounter: BSP and BJP spar on Twitter over UP's crime record

After BSP grabbed the chance to hit out at the Yogi government, suggesting UP police "learn" from its Hyderabad counterparts, the former retorted with statistics on encounters it has under its belt

Even as the Telangana police won praise on social media over the alleged encounter of the Hyderabad rape and murder accused, a war of words has broken out between the Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Twitter. After the BSP grabbed the opportunity to hit out at the Adityanath government, suggesting the UP police “learn” from its Hyderabad counterparts, the former retorted with statistics on encounters it has under its belt. Its Twitter post said 103 criminals had been killed by the UP police in 5,178 encounters in the last two years or so,